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Astragalus succumbens

Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch

California milkvetch, Klamath milkvetch

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.

Astragalus succumbens

Astragalus californicus

Distribution
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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
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. 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. 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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