Flora of North America species comparison

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Astragalus australis var. lepagei
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Lepage's milkvetch
Stems

sprawling to ascending, (8–)24–40 cm.
Leaves

3–9 cm;

sessile or petiolate;

leaflets (5–)9–15, blades elliptic to lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong, linear-lanceolate, or linear, 6–33 mm, apex acute to apiculate, surfaces glabrous, strigulose, pilosulous, or villous.
Racemes

densely to loosely 8–29(–32)-flowered;

axis 3–14 cm in fruit.
Peduncles

(4–)4.5–10 cm.
Flowers

(10.5–)11.5–13.8(–14.5) mm;

calyx (4.7–)4.8–6.5 mm, tube 2.8–5 mm, lobes (1–)1.4–2.4 mm.
Corollas

whitish to purplish.
Legumes

obliquely ellipsoid to narrowly oblong, (10–)15–30 × (3–)6–8.5 mm, glabrous;

stipe (3–)5–7 mm.

Astragalus australis var. lepagei
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Spits, gravel bars, slopes, ridge crests, in mixed tundra.
Elevation 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; YT
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Hemiphragmium > Astragalus australis
Sibling taxa
A. australis var. glabriusculus, A. australis var. muriei, A. australis var. olympicus
Synonyms A. lepagei
Name authority (Hultén) S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 58: 47. (1998)
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