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Astragalus beckwithii

Weiser's milkvetch

lonesome milkvetch, weak milkvetch

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

solitary or few; erect; (15)20–50 cm.

Leaves

2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–9(13), linear to linear-oblong; (1.5)3–15 × 0.5–3 mm;

tips obtuse or subacute;

surfaces abaxially strigose, adaxially strigose or glabrescent;

stipules 1–3 mm; free.

Inflorescences

racemes, loosely or remotely (3)7–30-flowered;

peduncles (3)5–15 cm;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

pedicels 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

Flowers

spreading at anthesis;

calyces 2.3–3.4 mm, strigose;

hairs white or partly fuscous or black;

tubes 2.1–2.8 mm;

teeth deltoid or subulate, 0.3–0.8 mm;

corollas (5.5)6–8 mm; yellowish green, purple-tinged;

ovules (6)8–15.

Fruits

unilocular, pendulous, narrowly oblong or lance-oblong; straight or falcately decurved, strongly compressed, bicarinate, 12–25 × 3–5.5 mm, strigillose;

valves papery to thinly cartilaginous;

stipes 4–8 mm.

Astragalus beckwithii

Astragalus solitarius

Distribution
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Discussion

Slopes, flats, sagebrush. Flowering May–Jul. 900–1600 m. BR, Owy. NV. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674
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. 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. 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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