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painted milkvetch

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Bonneville County milkvetch, painted milkvetch

Habit Plants with mostly malpighian hairs on stems and herbage. Plants with mostly basifixed hairs on stems and herbage.
Leaves

2–12 cm; usually 1–6 pairs of lateral leaflets proximally or throughout, distalmost often reduced to naked rachis.

2.5–17 cm, mostly reduced to filiform rachis;

leaflets 0(–5).

Racemes

6–15(–25)-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–8(–15) cm in fruit.

2–7-flowered;

axis 1–4.5(–5.5) cm in fruit.

Flowers

6.3–8.3(–9.5) mm;

calyx 3.1–4.2 mm, tube 2.1–2.6(–3.3) mm, lobes 1–1.8 mm.

7.4–10.8 mm;

calyx (3.7–)4–6 mm, tube (2.3–)2.5–3.5 mm, lobes (1.4–)1.6–3 mm.

Legumes

(10–)15–30 × 5–15(–22) mm;

stipe (1–)1.5–3.3 mm.

2–40 × 15–24 mm;

stipe 0 m m. Seeds (17–)20–29.

Seeds

12–16(–26).

2n

= 22.

= 22.

Astragalus ceramicus var. ceramicus

Astragalus ceramicus var. apus

Phenology Flowering late Apr–Jul. Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Dunes, sandy sites in pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, stream banks, grasslands, mixed desert shrub communities. Dunes, sandy flats.
Elevation 1200–2500 m. (3900–8200 ft.) 1300–1500 m. (4300–4900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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from FNA
ID; MT
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Discussion

Variety apus occurs on the eastern end of the Snake River Plains eastward to Bonneville and Madison counties, Idaho, and Beaverhead County, Montana.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Cusickiani > Astragalus ceramicus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Cusickiani > Astragalus ceramicus
Sibling taxa
A. ceramicus var. apus, A. ceramicus var. filifolius
A. ceramicus var. ceramicus, A. ceramicus var. filifolius
Name authority unknown Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 341. (1964)
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