Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus howellii |
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Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch |
Howell's milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely to thinly grayish hirsute, hairs basifixed. | Plants perennial, caulescent, villosulous, hairs basifixed. |
Stems | several, decumbent to erect, 2–40(50) cm. |
several, ascending to erect, forming bushy clumps, 5–40 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. |
(4)5–14 cm; leaflets (17)21–27(33), oblong, obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, 4–14 × 1–4 mm; tips obtuse to truncate-retuse; surfaces pubescent, adaxially sometimes glabrate to glabrous; stipules 3–5 mm; free. |
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 10–25-flowered; peduncles 5.5–18 cm; bracts 1–2.5 mm; pedicels 1–4.5 mm; bracteoles 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 or declined at anthesis; calyces 5–8 mm, strigose or villosulous with white or sometimes black hairs; tubes 4–5 mm; teeth subulatetriangular, 1–3 mm; corollas 6.5–8.5 mm, ochroleucous, unspotted; ovules 11–21. |
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. |
bilocular, pendulous, lunately lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, trigonously compressed; (16)20–30 × 3–5 mm, densely villosulous; valves stiffly papery; stipes (4)7–12(14) mm. |
2n | =24. |
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Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus howellii |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sandy hills and dunes, roadbanks, sagebrush. Flowering Apr–Jul. 50–900 m. Col. WA. Native. |
Scabland, dry rocky slopes and ridges, grassy hills. Flowering Apr–Jun. 50–1600 m. BW, Col. WA. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674 Richard Halse |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 665 Richard Halse |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Astragalus howellii var. howellii | |
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