Astragalus newberryi |
Astragalus eremiticus |
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Newberry's milkvetch |
hermit milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, thinly to densely strigillose, hairs basifixed. | |
Stems | several, ascending to erect, 10–50 cm. |
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Leaves | (3)4.5–18 cm; leaflets ovate, elliptic to oblong, 5–26 × 1.5–6 mm; tips obtuse to retuse; surfaces abaxially strigillose, adaxially glabrate to glabrous; stipules 3–11 mm; free. |
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Inflorescences | racemes 10–25-flowered; peduncles (1.5)2.5–17 cm; bracts 1.5–4 mm; pedicels 0.7–3.5 mm; bracteoles 0–2. |
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Flowers | ascending, spreading, or declined at anthesis; calyces subsymmetric or strongly oblique at bases, 5.5–9.5 mm, strigillose with black or mixture of black and white hairs; tubes 4.5–8 mm; teeth triangular to subulate, 1–2.5 mm; corollas 12–20 mm, ochroleucous with keel tips usually purple, or petals purple with yellowish wing tips; ovules 17–32. |
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Fruits | bilocular; erect; straight or nearly so, oblong to ellipsoid, trigonous, dorsally sulcate, 12–27(30) × 3.5–9 mm, glabrous; valves chartaceous or coriaceous; stipes 6–15(17) mm. |
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2n | =24. |
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Astragalus newberryi |
Astragalus eremiticus |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Ash-clay hillsides, grassy slopes, sagebrush-bunchgrass communities. Flowering Apr–Jul. 500–1800 m. BR, BW, Owy. ID, NV; southeast to AZ. Native. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2 draft Richard Halse |
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Synonyms | Astragalus eremiticus var. eremiticus, Astragalus eremiticus var. malheurensis, Astragalus eremiticus var. spencianus, Astragalus malheurensis | |
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