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crouching milk-vetch, sprawling milk-vetch
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Leiberg's milk-vetch
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Tufted perennial from a woody taproot and many-branched crown, the numerous stems 1- 10 cm. long, silky-gray or greenish, shorter than the leaves and peduncles. |
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Leaves pinnate, 8-28 cm. long; leaflets 15-31, linear to lance-elliptic, 4-10 mm. long; stipules scarious, clasping and united into a sheath. |
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Inflorescence of loose, 7- to 20-flowered racemes, the peduncles stout, erect, 10-28 cm. long; flowers nodding, whitish, 11.5-16.5 mm. long; calyx 5.5-9.5 mm. long, with long, soft, black hairs, the bell-shaped tube 3-5.5 mm. long, the 5 teeth 1.5-4 mm. long; banner longer than the wings; stamens 10. |
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Pod erect, with a stipe 3-8 mm. long, the body oblong-elipsoid, 16-27 mm. long and 4-7.5 mm. wide, keeled on the back, cordate in cross section. |
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| April-June |
April-June |
| Sagebrush deserts, sandy barrens and lower foothills. |
Dry hillsides and plains, commonly in sagebrush scabland on basalt. |
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington from Kittitas and Grant counties south; Washington to Umatilla and Gilliam Counties, Oregon.
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Endemic to Douglas, Kittitas and Chelan counties of central Washington.
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| Native |
Native |
| Not of concern |
Not of concern |
A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. arrectus, A. arthuri, A. arthurii, A. asotinensis, A. australis, 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. tenellus, A. tweedyi, A. whitneyi |
A. agrestis, A. alpinus, A. arrectus, A. arthuri, A. arthurii, A. asotinensis, A. australis, 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. 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 |
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