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Alvord milkvetch

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

1

Leaves

(1)1.5–5 cm;

leaflets (7)11–21, narrowly or broadly obovate, 1–7 × 1–5 mm;

tips retuse or obcordate;

surfaces abaxially strigose, adaxially glabrescent or strigose;

stipules 0.5–2.5 mm; free.

Inflorescences

racemes, loosely 5–14-flowered;

peduncles 1–3.5 cm;

bracts 0.5–1 mm;

pedicels 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

Flowers

declined at anthesis;

calyces 2.5–3 mm, villosulous with white and black hairs;

tubes 2–2.5 mm;

teeth triangular, 0.5–0.7 mm;

corollas 7–8.2 mm; pale lilac or whitish to yellowish, veined and tinged with lilac;

ovules 10–16.

Fruits

unilocular, pendulous, crescentic or hamate to coiled (1–2 spirals), strongly laterally compressed, bicarinate, 5–10 × 3–4 mm, villosulous;

valves papery;

stipes 2–9 mm.

few; erect, 15–30 cm; wiry.

Astragalus sericoleucus

Astragalus alvordensis

Distribution
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Discussion

Desert hillsides, sand dunes, sagebrush. Flowering May–Jun. 1000–1400 m. BR, BW, Owy. NV. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 657
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. 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. 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. solitarius, A. spaldingii, A. sterilis, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tetrapterus, A. toanus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbraticus, A. vallaris, A. whitneyi
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