Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus nudisiliquus |
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Columbia milkvetch, crouching milkvetch |
cobblestone milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, caulescent, densely to thinly grayish hirsute, hairs basifixed. | Plants perennial, caulescent, mat-forming, white tomentose, hairs basifixed. |
Stems | several, decumbent to erect, 2–40(50) cm. |
several–numerous, prostrate; (2)5–25(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. |
3–11 cm; leaflets (7)11–17, broadly obovate; ovate-cuneate or broadly oblanceolate, 4–17 × 2.5–6.5 mm; tips obtuse, emarginate or subacute; surfaces abaxially white tomentose, adaxially tomentose, sometimes more thinly so and greenish; stipules (1.5)3–7 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 subcapitate; (2)4–8-flowered; peduncles 1–7 cm; bracts (1.5)3–6 mm; pedicels 1.4–3.4 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 12–17(19) mm, often purplish-tinged, thinly villosulous with mainly white hairs; tubes 10–14 mm; teeth subulate or subulate-setaceous; (2)3–5 mm; corollas 19–25.5 mm, pink-purple; ovules 30–41. |
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, ascending, humistrate, obliquely-ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed; (15)20–40(45) × (8)9–13 mm, villous-hirsute; hairs not concealing valve surfaces; valves coriaceous; stipes 0. |
2n | =24. |
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Astragalus succumbens |
Astragalus nudisiliquus |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Sandy hills and dunes, roadbanks, sagebrush. Flowering Apr–Jul. 50–900 m. Col. WA. Native. |
Rocky slopes, sandy riverbanks, cobblestone alluvia, eroded slopes with sagebrush. Flowering May–Jun. 600–1400 m. Owy. ID. Native. Astragalus nudisiliquus may resemble A. purshii, but the latter’s valve surfaces are usually completely concealed by dense pubescence. In A. nudisiliquus, the valve surfaces are easily seen through the hairs. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 674 Richard Halse |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 670 Richard Halse |
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