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Newberry's milkvetch

hermit milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, caulescent, thinly to densely strigillose, hairs basifixed.
Stems

several, ascending to erect, 10–50 cm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2n

=24.

Astragalus newberryi

Astragalus eremiticus

Distribution
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Discussion

Ash-clay hillsides, grassy slopes, sagebrush-bunchgrass communities. Flowering Apr–Jul. 500–1800 m. BR, BW, Owy. ID, NV; southeast to AZ. Native.

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. 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. 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. 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. newberryi var. castoreus
Synonyms Astragalus eremiticus var. eremiticus, Astragalus eremiticus var. malheurensis, Astragalus eremiticus var. spencianus, Astragalus malheurensis
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