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basalt milkvetch, Idaho milkvetch, stiff milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, subacaulescent to shortly caulescent, strigillose, hairs basifixed.
Stems

several–numerous, ascending to erect; in clumps, 15–65 cm.

Leaves

leaflets (9)13–25(31), linear-oblong, linear-elliptic, lanceolate, or sub-filiform, 3–23 × 0.7–3(4) mm;

tips obtuse; acute or retuse;

surfaces abaxially pubescent, adaxially pubescent, glabrate, or glabrous;

terminal leaflets sometimes confluent with rachis;

stipules 3–11 mm; at least lowermost connate-sheathing.

Inflorescences

racemes loosely 7–17(20)-flowered;

peduncles 10–33 cm;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

pedicels 1–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

Flowers

ascending to spreading at anthesis;

calyces (7)8.5–12 mm; greenish strigillose with black or mostly black hairs;

tubes 4.9–9.2 mm;

teeth subulate, 1.3–3(4) mm;

corollas 15–26 mm; whitish, sometimes tipped with purple or rarely purple throughout;

ovules 15–30.

Fruits

unilocular to semibilocular; erect, oblong-ellipsoid to oblong-ovoid; straight or slightly incurved, obcompressed; dorsal surface almost flat to shallowly sulcate, 12–25 × 4–8(10) mm, transversely rugulose;

valves coriaceous to subligneous;

stipes 0.

Astragalus conjunctus

Distribution
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Discussion

Astragalus conjunctus is closely related to A. hoodianus. A third closely related species, A. reventiformis, has been reported from Sherman County, but no voucher has been found to con­firm its presence in Oregon.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2 draft
Richard Halse
Sibling taxa
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. 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
Subordinate taxa
A. conjunctus var. conjunctus, A. conjunctus var. rickardii
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