Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus caricinus(synonym of Astragalus lyallii) |
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Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch |
buckwheat milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely to thinly grayish hirsute, hairs basifixed. | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely gray-villous or -pilose, hairs basifixed or malpighian. |
Stems | several, decumbent to erect, 2–40(50) cm. |
numerous, ascending to erect, clustered; (10)15–30 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. |
3.5–9(10.5) cm; leaflets 11–19(23), narrowly elliptic to lance-elliptic to narrowly oblong; (3)5–18 × 1–4 mm; tips acute to obtuse or mucronulate; surfaces villous; stipules (2)3–8 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 lax, not crowded; (5)10–25-flowered; peduncles 0.5–5(7) cm; bracts 1–2.5 mm; pedicels 0.4–1.5 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 to declined at anthesis; calyces 3.5–5.5 mm, densely white- or partly black-villosulous; tubes 1.7–3 mm; teeth subulate-setaceous, 1.3–3 mm; corollas 4.5–7 mm; whitish or tinged lilac, drying yellowish; ovules 6–8. |
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, deflexed; lance-elliptic; straight, compressed-triquetrous or laterally compressed, narrowly sulcate dorsally, 6–9 × 2–3 mm, white or gray tomentulose; valves papery; stipes 0. |
2n | =24. |
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Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus caricinus |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sandy hills and dunes, roadbanks, sagebrush. Flowering Apr–Jul. 50–900 m. Col. WA. Native. |
Sand dunes. Flowering May–Jun. 100–1000 m. Col, Owy. ID, WA. Native. Buckwheat milkvetch is distinguished by its dense gray pubescence, connate lower stipules, small pale flowers, and small, deflexed, densely hairy, bilocular fruits. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674 Richard Halse |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 661 Richard Halse |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Astragalus lyallii, Astragalus lyallii var. caricinus | |
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