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cibola milkvetch
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Pursh's milk-vetch, Pursh's sheeppod, woolly-pod milk-vetch
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| Plants forming bushy clumps, robust, 15–85(–120) cm, strigulose to pilose; from branched caudex bearing thick, woody, shortly forked taproot, becoming suffruticose. |
Plants tuft-forming, acaulescent, subacaulescent, or shortly caulescent, 4.5–13 cm, usually villous to villous-tomentose, sometimes appearing white or gray, hairs basifixed; from branched, superficial caudex, branches with thatch. |
erect or ascending, strigulose to pilose, cinereous or canescent. |
usually obscured by stipules, or internodes to 2 cm, villous to villous-tomentose. |
3–10(–14) cm; stipules 2.5–10 mm, scarious; leaflet blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, (2–)4–27(–45) mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
1–12(–15) cm; stipules (2.5–)3–15 mm, membranous; leaflets (3 or)5–17(–21), blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, elliptic to oblanceolate, or rhombic-elliptic, 2–14(–20) mm, apex usually acute, subacute, acuminate, or obtuse, rarely truncate-emarginate, surfaces densely villous. |
9–47-flowered; axis (2–)3–15(–20) cm in fruit; bracts (2–)3–7 mm; bracteoles 0–2. |
1–11-flowered, flowers ascending; axis 0.3–2(–4) cm in fruit; bracts 2–9 mm; bracteoles 0. |
erect, 1–4(–5.5) cm, much shorter than subtending leaves. |
ascending or erect, decumbent in fruit, 1.5–10.5 cm. |
0.3–1.2 mm. |
1–5 mm. |
13–17.2 mm; calyx (7.2–)7.5–11 mm, strigulose to pilose, tube (5.4–)5.7–7.4 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.5–)1.8–3.6 mm; corolla banner recurved through 45°; keel 10.4–12.8 mm. |
19–25(–27) mm; calyx cylindric, cylindro-campanulate, or campanulate, (5.5–)6–16(–19) mm, villous-pilose, tube (4–)4.5–12(–13.6) mm, lobes subulate, 1–6(–7) mm; corolla white, cream, purple, or pink-purple; banner recurved through 40°; keel 8–21.2(–22.5) mm. |
brown-stramineous, gently incurved, dorsiventrally compressed or 3-sided at dehiscence, carinate by ventral suture, beak laterally compressed, 9–12 × 3.3–5 mm, papery, strigose or glabrous; stipe 0.7–2.5 mm. |
initially ascending (humistrate), brownish, not mottled or spotted, incurved, ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 7–26(–30) × 3.5–11(–13) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, mostly shaggy-villous, sometimes tomentose or villous-hirsute, hairs 1.6–4(–5) mm, often concealing surface; sessile or subsessile, or gynophore 0.5+ mm. |
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| Flowering Jul–Oct. |
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| Gullied badlands, sandy clay talus under cliffs, on seleniferous substrates, with juniper, rabbitbrush, Eriogonum, and saltbush, in salt-seep communities. |
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| 1600–2600 m. (5200–8500 ft.) |
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w North America
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Astragalus albulus is mainly a New Mexico plant. At first sight, it resembles a somewhat taller, more robust A. flavus but is easily distinguished by declined or pendulous, stipitate, obcompressed and three-sided legumes (except for the laterally compressed, cuspidate beak). It is the only milkvetch within its region (northeastern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico) that flowers and fruits from mid summer to autumn on a regular basis. Racemes sometimes are borne from below the middle of the stem, with the portion bearing racemes much exceeding the non-flowering lower portion of the plant. It has been reported also from Culbertson County in Texas (D. K. Northington and T. L. Burgess 1979). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 8 (8 in the flora). The geographic distribution of Astragalus purshii, forming a relatively large triangle in western North America, from southwestern Canada to southern California, northeastward to western North Dakota, makes it the most widely distributed of all astragali with woolly fruits. The case for specific status for such entities as A. inflexus and A. utahensis may be little stronger than that for several of the taxa included within A. purshii (D. Isely 1998). L. Abrams (1944b) often gave an inclusive name of woolly-pod to all of the fuzzy-podded species, sometimes sheep-pod. For consistency they are all called milkvetch here. Isely gave a synopsis that helped to distinguish other woolly fruited species. The treatment of R. C. Barneby (1964) is followed here, and his key to varieties is largely followed. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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1. Calyces (5.5–)6–10.1 mm; banners 9–16.5 mm; keel 8–13 mm. | → 2 |
2. Racemes (3–)5–11-flowered; leaflets (7 or)9–15(or 17); sw Idaho. | var. ophiogenes |
2. Racemes 1–5(–7)-flowered; leaflets (3 or)5–9(or 11); California, sw Idaho, nw Nevada, and along foothills and plains adjacent to e slope of Cascades in Oregon. | → 3 |
3. Legumes incurved only in beak; seeds 24–32; San Bernardino Mountains and Sierra Nevada, California, w Nevada. | var. lectulus |
3. Legumes arched throughout, at least through 0.5–1 spiral; seeds 14–20; plains of ne California to c Oregon, sw Idaho, and nw Nevada. | var. lagopinus |
1. Calyces (8–)9–16(–19) mm; banners (14.6–)15.4–25(–26) mm; keel (11.5–)12.4–21.2(–22.5) mm. | → 4 |
4. Corollas mostly white or cream (keel tip maculate), rarely banners and wings tipped dull, pale bluish purple; widespread from California and British Columbia eastward to North Dakota and Colorado. | var. purshii |
4. Corollas purple or pink-purple throughout; British Columbia to s California (cis- and transmontane), sw Montana, and sc Nevada. | → 5 |
5. Banners (14.6–)19–25(–26.5) mm; keel (11.5–)12.4–21(–22.5) mm. | → 6 |
6. Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent; leaflets (5 or)7 or 9(or 11), blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, or broadly elliptic, apices obtuse or truncate; ec Idaho, sw Montana. | var. concinnus |
6. Plants shortly caulescent or subacaulescent; leaflets (3 or)5–17(–21), blades obovate-cuneate, oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, apices usually acute, subacute, or short-acuminate, rarely obtuse; British Columbia, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington. | → 7 |
7. Legumes not or very shallowly sulcate ventrally; leaflets (3 or)5–13(–17), blades usually obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, rarely elliptic-oblanceolate, apices usually acute or subacute, rarely obtuse; racemes 3–11-flowered; banners (14.6–)15.4–25 mm; cis- and transmontane California, w Nevada, and Oregon. | var. tinctus |
7. Legumes strongly depressed-sulcate ventrally in proximal 1/2; leaflets (7 or)9–15(or 17), blades usually narrowly elliptic, rarely elliptic-oblanceolate, apices usually acute or short-acuminate; racemes 2–5(–10)-flowered; banners 19–25(–26.5) mm; Oregon and British Columbia eastward to Utah. | var. glareosus |
5. Banners 11.5–18(–25) mm; keel 10.2–15(–20.8) mm. | → 8 |
8. Legumes strongly sulcate ventrally in proximal 1/2; c Nevada. | var. pumilio |
8. Legumes not or shallowly sulcate ventrally; ne California, sw Idaho, nw Nevada, se Oregon. | → 9 |
9. Legumes 13–23(–27) mm; racemes with relatively short (subcapitate) flowering axes; ne California, nw Nevada, e Oregon. | var. tinctus |
9. Legumes 8–13 mm; racemes with relatively long flowering axes; along Owyhee, Snake, and lower Bruneau rivers, se Oregon and sw Idaho. | var. ophiogenes |
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FNA vol. 11. |
| Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Argophylli |
A. accidens, A. accumbens, A. ackermanii, A. acutirostris, A. adanus, A. aequalis, A. agnicidus, A. agrestis, A. albens, A. allochrous, A. alpinus, A. altus, A. alvordensis, A. amblytropis, A. americanus, A. amnis-amissi, A. amphioxys, A. ampullarioides, A. ampullarius, A. andersonii, A. anisus, A. anserinus, A. applegatei, A. aquilonius, A. aretioides, A. argophyllus, A. aridus, A. arizonicus, A. arrectus, A. arthurii, A. asclepiadoides, A. asotinensis, A. asymmetricus, A. atratus, A. atropubescens, A. atwoodii, A. austiniae, A. australis, A. barnebyi, A. barrii, A. beathii, A. beatleyae, A. beckwithii, A. bernardinus, A. bibullatus, A. bicristatus, A. bisulcatus, A. bodinii, A. bolanderi, A. bourgovii, A. brandegeei, A. brauntonii, A. brazoensis, A. breweri, A. californicus, A. callithrix, A. calycosus, A. camptopus, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. casei, A. castaneiformis, A. castetteri, A. ceramicus, A. cerussatus, A. chamaeleuce, A. chamaemeniscus, A. chinensis, A. chloödes, A. chuskanus, A. cibarius, A. cicer, A. cimae, A. claranus, A. clevelandii, A. cliffordii, A. cobrensis, A. coccineus, A. collinus, A. coltonii, A. columbianus, A. concordius, A. congdonii, A. conjunctus, A. consobrinus, A. contortuplicatus, A. convallarius, A. cottamii, A. crassicarpus, A. cremnophylax, A. cronquistii, A. crotalariae, A. curtipes, A. curvicarpus, A. cusickii, A. cutleri, A. cyaneus, A. cymboides, A. deanei, A. debequaeus, A. desereticus, A. desperatus, A. deterior, A. detritalis, A. diaphanus, A. didymocarpus, A. distortus, A. diversifolius, A. douglasii, A. drabelliformis, A. drummondii, A. duchesnensis, A. eastwoodiae, A. egglestonii, A. emoryanus, A. endopterus, A. ensiformis, A. episcopus, A. equisolensis, A. eremiticus, A. ertterae, A. eucosmus, A. eurekensis, A. eurylobus, A. falcatus, A. feensis, A. filipes, A. flavus, A. flexuosus, A. fucatus, A. funereus, A. gambelianus, A. geyeri, A. gibbsii, A. giganteus, A. gilensis, A. gilmanii, A. gilviflorus, A. glycyphyllos, A. gracilis, A. grayi, A. gypsodes, A. hallii, A. hamiltonii, A. harrisonii, A. heilii, A. henrimontanensis, A. holmgreniorum, A. hoodianus, A. hornii, A. howellii, A. humillimus, A. humistratus, A. hyalinus, A. hypoxylus, A. inflexus, A. insularis, A. inversus, A. inyoensis, A. iodanthus, A. iodopetalus, A. iselyi, A. jaegerianus, A. jejunus, A. johannis-howellii, A. kelseyae, A. kentrophyta, A. kerrii, A. knightii, A. laccoliticus, A. lancearius, A. laxmannii, A. layneae, A. leibergii, A. lemmonii, A. lentiformis, A. lentiginosus, A. leptaleus, A. leptocarpus, A. leucolobus, A. limnocharis, A. lindheimeri, A. linifolius, A. loanus, A. lonchocarpus, A. lotiflorus, A. lutosus, A. lyallii, A. macrodon, A. magdalenae, A. malacoides, A. malacus, A. megacarpus, A. michauxii, A. microcymbus, A. microcystis, A. microlobium, A. micromerius, A. miguelensis, A. minthorniae, A. misellus, A. miser, A. missouriensis, A. moencoppensis, A. mohavensis, A. mollissimus, A. molybdenus, A. monoensis, A. montii, A. monumentalis, A. mulfordiae, A. multiflorus, A. musiniensis, A. naturitensis, A. neglectus, A. nelsonianus, A. neomexicanus, A. nevinii, A. newberryi, A. nidularius, A. nothoxys, A. nudisiliquus, A. nutans, A. nutriosensis, A. nuttallianus, A. nuttallii, A. nutzotinensis, A. nyensis, A. obcordatus, A. obscurus, A. oniciformis, A. oocalycis, A. oocarpus, A. oophorus, A. oreganus, A. osterhoutii, A. oxyphysus, A. pachypus, A. palmeri, A. panamintensis, A. pardalinus, A. parryi, A. pattersonii, A. pauperculus, A. paysonii, A. peckii, A. pectinatus, A. perianus, A. phoenix, A. pictiformis, A. pinonis, A. piscator, A. piutensis, A. plattensis, A. platytropis, A. polaris, A. pomonensis, A. porrectus, A. praelongus, A. preussii, A. proimanthus, A. proximus, A. pseudiodanthus, A. pterocarpus, A. pubentissimus, A. pulsiferae, A. puniceus, A. purshii, A. pycnostachyus, A. racemosus, A. rafaelensis, A. rattanii, A. ravenii, A. recurvus, A. reflexus, A. remotus, A. reventiformis, A. reventus, A. riparius, A. ripleyi, A. robbinsii, A. rusbyi, A. sabulonum, A. sabulosus, A. salmonis, A. saurinus, A. scaphoides, A. schmolliae, A. sclerocarpus, A. scopulorum, A. sepultipes, A. serenoi, A. sericoleucus, A. serpens, A. sesquiflorus, A. sheldonii, A. shevockii, A. shortianus, A. siliceus, A. simplicifolius, A. sinuatus, A. solitarius, A. sophoroides, A. soxmaniorum, A. spaldingii, A. sparsiflorus, A. spatulatus, A. speirocarpus, A. straturensis, A. striatiflorus, A. subcinereus, A. subvestitus, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tener, A. tennesseensis, A. tephrodes, A. terminalis, A. tetrapterus, A. thurberi, A. tibetanus, A. tidestromii, A. tiehmii, A. titanophilus, A. toanus, A. toquimanus, A. tortipes, A. traskiae, A. tricarinatus, A. trichopodus, A. tridactylicus, A. troglodytus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbellatus, A. umbraticus, A. uncialis, A. utahensis, A. vaccarum, A. vallaris, A. vexilliflexus, A. villosus, A. wardii, A. waterfallii, A. webberi, A. welshii, A. wetherillii, A. whitneyi, A. williamsii, A. wingatanus, A. wittmannii, A. woodruffii, A. wootonii, A. wrightii, A. xiphoides, A. yoderwilliamsii, A. zionis |
A. accidens, A. accumbens, A. ackermanii, A. acutirostris, A. adanus, A. aequalis, A. agnicidus, A. agrestis, A. albens, A. albulus, A. allochrous, A. alpinus, A. altus, A. alvordensis, A. amblytropis, A. americanus, A. amnis-amissi, A. amphioxys, A. ampullarioides, A. ampullarius, A. andersonii, A. anisus, A. anserinus, A. applegatei, A. aquilonius, A. aretioides, A. argophyllus, A. aridus, A. arizonicus, A. arrectus, A. arthurii, A. asclepiadoides, A. asotinensis, A. asymmetricus, A. atratus, A. atropubescens, A. atwoodii, A. austiniae, A. australis, A. barnebyi, A. barrii, A. beathii, A. beatleyae, A. beckwithii, A. bernardinus, A. bibullatus, A. bicristatus, A. bisulcatus, A. bodinii, A. bolanderi, A. bourgovii, A. brandegeei, A. brauntonii, A. brazoensis, A. breweri, A. californicus, A. callithrix, A. calycosus, A. camptopus, A. canadensis, A. caricinus, A. casei, A. castaneiformis, A. castetteri, A. ceramicus, A. cerussatus, A. chamaeleuce, A. chamaemeniscus, A. chinensis, A. chloödes, A. chuskanus, A. cibarius, A. cicer, A. cimae, A. claranus, A. clevelandii, A. cliffordii, A. cobrensis, A. coccineus, A. collinus, A. coltonii, A. columbianus, A. concordius, A. congdonii, A. conjunctus, A. consobrinus, A. contortuplicatus, A. convallarius, A. cottamii, A. crassicarpus, A. cremnophylax, A. cronquistii, A. crotalariae, A. curtipes, A. curvicarpus, A. cusickii, A. cutleri, A. cyaneus, A. cymboides, A. deanei, A. debequaeus, A. desereticus, A. desperatus, A. deterior, A. detritalis, A. diaphanus, A. didymocarpus, A. distortus, A. diversifolius, A. douglasii, A. drabelliformis, A. drummondii, A. duchesnensis, A. eastwoodiae, A. egglestonii, A. emoryanus, A. endopterus, A. ensiformis, A. episcopus, A. equisolensis, A. eremiticus, A. ertterae, A. eucosmus, A. eurekensis, A. eurylobus, A. falcatus, A. feensis, A. filipes, A. flavus, A. flexuosus, A. fucatus, A. funereus, A. gambelianus, A. geyeri, A. gibbsii, A. giganteus, A. gilensis, A. gilmanii, A. gilviflorus, A. glycyphyllos, A. gracilis, A. grayi, A. gypsodes, A. hallii, A. hamiltonii, A. harrisonii, A. heilii, A. henrimontanensis, A. holmgreniorum, A. hoodianus, A. hornii, A. howellii, A. humillimus, A. humistratus, A. hyalinus, A. hypoxylus, A. inflexus, A. insularis, A. inversus, A. inyoensis, A. iodanthus, A. iodopetalus, A. iselyi, A. jaegerianus, A. jejunus, A. johannis-howellii, A. kelseyae, A. kentrophyta, A. kerrii, A. knightii, A. laccoliticus, A. lancearius, A. laxmannii, A. layneae, A. leibergii, A. lemmonii, A. lentiformis, A. lentiginosus, A. leptaleus, A. leptocarpus, A. leucolobus, A. limnocharis, A. lindheimeri, A. linifolius, A. loanus, A. lonchocarpus, A. lotiflorus, A. lutosus, A. lyallii, A. macrodon, A. magdalenae, A. malacoides, A. malacus, A. megacarpus, A. michauxii, A. microcymbus, A. microcystis, A. microlobium, A. micromerius, A. miguelensis, A. minthorniae, A. misellus, A. miser, A. missouriensis, A. moencoppensis, A. mohavensis, A. mollissimus, A. molybdenus, A. monoensis, A. montii, A. monumentalis, A. mulfordiae, A. multiflorus, A. musiniensis, A. naturitensis, A. neglectus, A. nelsonianus, A. neomexicanus, A. nevinii, A. newberryi, A. nidularius, A. nothoxys, A. nudisiliquus, A. nutans, A. nutriosensis, A. nuttallianus, A. nuttallii, A. nutzotinensis, A. nyensis, A. obcordatus, A. obscurus, A. oniciformis, A. oocalycis, A. oocarpus, A. oophorus, A. oreganus, A. osterhoutii, A. oxyphysus, A. pachypus, A. palmeri, A. panamintensis, A. pardalinus, A. parryi, A. pattersonii, A. pauperculus, A. paysonii, A. peckii, A. pectinatus, A. perianus, A. phoenix, A. pictiformis, A. pinonis, A. piscator, A. piutensis, A. plattensis, A. platytropis, A. polaris, A. pomonensis, A. porrectus, A. praelongus, A. preussii, A. proimanthus, A. proximus, A. pseudiodanthus, A. pterocarpus, A. pubentissimus, A. pulsiferae, A. puniceus, A. pycnostachyus, A. racemosus, A. rafaelensis, A. rattanii, A. ravenii, A. recurvus, A. reflexus, A. remotus, A. reventiformis, A. reventus, A. riparius, A. ripleyi, A. robbinsii, A. rusbyi, A. sabulonum, A. sabulosus, A. salmonis, A. saurinus, A. scaphoides, A. schmolliae, A. sclerocarpus, A. scopulorum, A. sepultipes, A. serenoi, A. sericoleucus, A. serpens, A. sesquiflorus, A. sheldonii, A. shevockii, A. shortianus, A. siliceus, A. simplicifolius, A. sinuatus, A. solitarius, A. sophoroides, A. soxmaniorum, A. spaldingii, A. sparsiflorus, A. spatulatus, A. speirocarpus, A. straturensis, A. striatiflorus, A. subcinereus, A. subvestitus, A. succumbens, A. tegetarioides, A. tener, A. tennesseensis, A. tephrodes, A. terminalis, A. tetrapterus, A. thurberi, A. tibetanus, A. tidestromii, A. tiehmii, A. titanophilus, A. toanus, A. toquimanus, A. tortipes, A. traskiae, A. tricarinatus, A. trichopodus, A. tridactylicus, A. troglodytus, A. tweedyi, A. tyghensis, A. umbellatus, A. umbraticus, A. uncialis, A. utahensis, A. vaccarum, A. vallaris, A. vexilliflexus, A. villosus, A. wardii, A. waterfallii, A. webberi, A. welshii, A. wetherillii, A. whitneyi, A. williamsii, A. wingatanus, A. wittmannii, A. woodruffii, A. wootonii, A. wrightii, A. xiphoides, A. yoderwilliamsii, A. zionis |
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| Wooton & Standley: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 136. (1913) |
Douglas in W. J. Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 152. (1831) |
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