Astragalus conjunctus |
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basalt milkvetch, Idaho milkvetch, stiff milkvetch |
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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 |
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Distribution | |
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 |
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