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Astragalus beckwithii

Weiser's milkvetch

Mulford's milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, caulescent, strigillose, hairs basifixed.
Stems

several–numerous, spreading to ascending, 10–30 cm.

Leaves

(2.5)4.5–10.5 cm;

leaflets (7)15–25, linear-oblong, linear-oblanceolate, or filiform;

terminal leaflet jointed to or confluent with rachis, 1–11 × 0.5–1.5 mm;

tips obtuse or subacute;

surfaces abaxially strigillose, adaxially glabrous;

stipules 1.5–6 mm; at least lowermost connate-sheathing.

Inflorescences

racemes, loosely or remotely (5)8–20-flowered;

peduncles (0.5)1–7 cm;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

pedicels 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

Flowers

declined at anthesis;

calyces 2.5–5 mm, usually white strigillose;

tubes 1.5–3 mm;

teeth subulate, 0.8–2 mm;

corollas 6–8.2 mm, white or whitish;

banners sometimes lilac-veined or -tinged;

ovules 10–16.

Fruits

bilocular, pendulous, lunately half-ellipsoid, gently incurved, triquetrously compressed, 9–16 × 3–4.5 mm, finely strigillose;

valves papery;

stipes 3–5 mm.

Astragalus beckwithii

Astragalus mulfordiae

Distribution
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Discussion

Sagebrush, sandy bluffs. Flowering May–Jun. 600–1300 m. Owy. ID. Native.

Connate lower stipules, distant, narrow green leaflets, white or lilac-tinged flowers, and nodding, stipitate, trigonous, and bilocular fruits characterize this species.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 669
Richard Halse
Sibling taxa
A. accidens, A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. alvordensis, A. applegatei, A. arthuri, A. atratus, A. australis, A. californicus, A. calycosus, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. collinus, A. conjunctus, A. curvicarpus, A. cusickii, A. diaphanus, A. drummondii, A. eremiticus, A. filipes, A. gambellianus, A. geyeri, A. hoodianus, A. howellii, A. inflexus, A. iodanthus, A. kentrophyta, A. lemmonii, A. lentiginosus, A. malacus, A. misellus, A. mulfordiae, A. multiflorus, A. newberryi, A. nudisiliquus, A. obscurus, A. peckii, A. platytropis, A. purshii, A. reventus, A. robbinsii, A. salmonis, A. sclerocarpus, A. sheldonii, A. solitarius, A. spaldingii, A. sterilis, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tetrapterus, A. toanus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbraticus, A. vallaris, A. whitneyi
A. accidens, A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. alvordensis, A. applegatei, A. arthuri, A. atratus, A. australis, A. beckwithii, A. californicus, A. calycosus, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. collinus, A. conjunctus, A. curvicarpus, A. cusickii, A. diaphanus, A. drummondii, A. eremiticus, A. filipes, A. gambellianus, A. geyeri, A. hoodianus, A. howellii, A. inflexus, A. iodanthus, A. kentrophyta, A. lemmonii, A. lentiginosus, A. malacus, A. misellus, A. multiflorus, A. newberryi, A. nudisiliquus, A. obscurus, A. peckii, A. platytropis, A. purshii, A. reventus, A. robbinsii, A. salmonis, A. sclerocarpus, A. sheldonii, A. solitarius, A. spaldingii, A. sterilis, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tetrapterus, A. toanus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbraticus, A. vallaris, A. whitneyi
Subordinate taxa
A. beckwithii var. weiserensis
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