Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus filipes |
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Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch |
basalt milkvetch, threadstalk milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely to thinly grayish hirsute, hairs basifixed. | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely strigillose to glabrate, hairs basifixed. |
Stems | several, decumbent to erect, 2–40(50) cm. |
several–numerous; erect or ascending; in large clumps, 20–90 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. |
2.5–12 cm; leaflets (5)9–23, linear, filiform or narrowly elliptic or oblong, 3–25(30) × 0.5–5 mm; tips obtuse to truncate; retuse or subacute; surfaces strigose or glabrous; stipules 2–5 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 4–30-flowered; peduncles 4.5–22 cm; bracts 1–3.5 mm; pedicels 1.5–6 mm; bracteoles usually 0. |
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. |
spreading to declined at anthesis; calyces 4–7.7 mm, strigillose with black and white hairs; tubes 3.3–6.4 mm; teeth triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm; corollas 10–15 mm; whitish to ochroleucous; ovules 11–22. |
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, oblong to elliptic, strongly laterally compressed, |
± | straight, bicarinate, 17–30(35) × 3–6.5 mm, glabrous to strigillose; valves papery; stipes 6–16 mm. |
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2n | =24. |
=22, 24. |
Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus filipes |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sandy hills and dunes, roadbanks, sagebrush. Flowering Apr–Jul. 50–900 m. Col. WA. Native. |
Sagebrush, grasslands. Flowering May–Jul. 50–2400 m. BR, BW, Col, ECas, Lava, Owy, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, southeast to UT, south Mexico. Native. This species is one of the most abundant and widely dispersed milkvetches in Oregon, often forming large colonies. It is usually easily recognizable by its connate stipules, numerous erect stems in clumps, yellowish flowers and pendulous, stipitate, laterally compressed, straight pods. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674 Richard Halse |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 664 Richard Halse |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Astragalus stenophyllus, Astragalus stenophyllus var. filipes, Astragalus stenophyllus var. stenophyllus | |
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