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Astragalus succumbens

Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch

pulse milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, caulescent, densely to thinly grayish hirsute, hairs basifixed. Plants perennial, caulescent, strigillose, hairs basifixed.
Stems

several, decumbent to erect, 2–40(50) cm.

several–numerous, prostrate to ascending or erect, 10–50 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.

2–9 cm;

leaflets (7)11–21(25), narrowly oblong to elliptic, linear, oblanceolate or obovate, 3–24(27) × 0.4–6 mm;

tips acute to obtuse, mucronate or emarginate;

surfaces abaxially strigose, adaxially glabrous;

stipules 1.5–8 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 loosely or remotely 3–23-flowered;

peduncles 0.2–4 cm;

bracts 0.5–3 mm;

pedicels 0.7–3.2 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.

ascending at anthesis;

calyces 2.5–6 mm, strigillose with black, white, or a mixture of black and white hairs;

tubes 2–3 mm;

teeth subulate or linear, 0.7–3 mm;

corollas 6–9(11) mm, white to ochroleucous or pink-purple;

ovules 3–9.

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, elliptic to oblong; straight or curved, laterally flattened, bicarinate, 7–17 × 2.5–4.5 mm, dark brown to black at maturity, usually glabrous or with few scattered white hairs;

valves papery;

stipes 1–7 mm.

2n

=24.

=24.

Astragalus succumbens

Astragalus multiflorus

Distribution
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Discussion

Sandy hills and dunes, roadbanks, sagebrush. Flowering Apr–Jul. 50–900 m. Col. WA. Native.

Sagebrush communities. Flowering May–Aug. 1200–1800 m. BR. ID, NV; north to Yukon Territory, northeast to Manitoba, east to MN, southeast to CO. Native.

This widely distributed species has only recently been found in Malheur County; it is probably native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674
Richard Halse
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 669
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. 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. 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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