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Indian milk-vetch, subarctic milk-vetch

Astragalus australis

Flowering time June-August
Habitat Foothill bluffs and riverbanks to subalpine and alpine ridges and scree.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in the Olympic Mountains in Washington; Alaska to the Olympic mountains, northeastern Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, east to the Great Plains and eastern Canada.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Threatened in Washington (WANHP)
Sibling taxa
A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. arrectus, A. arthuri, A. arthurii, A. asotinensis, A. beckwithii, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. cicer, A. collinus, A. columbianus, A. conjunctus, A. cusickii, A. diaphanus, A. eucosmus, A. falcatus, A. filipes, A. geyeri, A. hoodianus, A. howellii, A. inflexus, A. kentrophyta, A. laxmannii, A. leibergii, A. lentiginosus, A. lyallii, A. microcystis, A. misellus, A. miser, A. pulsiferae, A. purshii, A. reventiformis, A. reventus, A. riparius, A. robbinsii, A. sclerocarpus, A. sheldonii, A. sinuatus, A. spaldingii, A. speirocarpus, A. succumbens, A. tenellus, A. tweedyi, A. whitneyi
Subordinate taxa
A. australis var. cottonii
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