Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus californicus |
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Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch |
California milkvetch, Klamath milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely to thinly grayish hirsute, hairs basifixed. | Plants perennial, caulescent, villous-villosulous, hairs basifixed. |
Stems | several, decumbent to erect, 2–40(50) cm. |
several–numerous, decumbent to ascending; leafless at bases, 15–50 cm. |
Leaves | 3–10(11) cm; leaflets (7)9–19, oblong to oblong-ovate, obovate to elliptic, 5–19 × 3–9 mm; tips acute to obtuse or retuse; surfaces abaxially hirsute, adaxially hirsute to glabrescent; stipules (1.5)2.5–8(9) mm; free. |
3–8.5 cm; leaflets 13–21, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate; (4)6–20(23) × 2–4 mm; tips truncate-retuse to obtuse; surfaces usually strigillose; stipules 1.5–6.5 mm; at least lowermost connate-sheathing. |
Inflorescences | racemes densely 10–25-flowered; peduncles 1.5–5.5 cm; bracts (2.5)4–12 mm; pedicels 0.5–2.3 mm; bracteoles 0–2. |
racemes loosely 10–30-flowered; peduncles (3)6–14 cm; bracts (1.5)2–5 mm; pedicels 1.3–3.5 mm; bracteoles 0–2. |
Flowers | spreading-ascending at anthesis; calyces 9.5–13(15) mm; hirsute to hirsutulous with all white or white with some black hairs; tubes 7–8.6 mm; teeth subulate to linear-lanceolate, 2.5–5.5 mm; corollas 14–20(23) mm, bicolored; banners pink to white; wings white; keels pink to purple; tips spotted; ovules 27–38. |
declined or nodding at anthesis; calyces 6.4–9.7 mm; silky villous with white and some black hairs; tubes 5.2–7 mm; teeth triangular, 0.9–3 mm; corollas 11.5–17.4 mm, ochroleucous or yellowish; ovules (15)19–27. |
Fruits | bilocular, ascending, lunately linear-lanceolate or -oblong, arcuate to straight, triquetrous, strongly compressed, deeply sulcate dorsally; (20)25–40 × 4–8 mm, glabrous; valves cartilaginous; stipes 0. |
unilocular, pendulous, linear-oblong, strongly laterally compressed; straight or slightly decurved, bicarinate, 27–43 × 3.4–5 mm, sparsely to densely strigillose, rarely glabrous; valves papery; stipes 8–14 mm. |
2n | =24. |
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Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus californicus |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sandy hills and dunes, roadbanks, sagebrush. Flowering Apr–Jul. 50–900 m. Col. WA. Native. |
Oak woodlands, coniferous forests, chaparral. Flowering Mar–May. 600–1400 m. Sisk. CA. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674 Richard Halse |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 659 Richard Halse |
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