Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus multiflorus |
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Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch |
pulse milkvetch |
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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 |
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Distribution | ||
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 |
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