Astragalus cusickii var. packardiae |
Astragalus cusickii var. cusickii |
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Packard's milkvetch |
Cusick's milk vetch |
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Habit | Plants from shallow subterranean or superficial caudex; distal leaves foliose, reduced to naked rachis distally. | Plants from shallow subterranean or superficial caudex; distal leaves foliose. |
Leaves | stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes; leaflets (5 or)7–11(or 13), blades to 5–18(–27) mm, surfaces strigulose adaxially (often densely so); terminal leaflet continuous with rachis. |
stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes; leaflets (5 or)7–11(or 13), blades to 5–18(–27) mm, surfaces strigulose adaxially (often densely so); terminal leaflet continuous with rachis. |
Flowers | calyx 3.7–4.3 × 3–5 mm; corolla purplish; banner 8.5–10.5 mm. |
calyx 4.4–5.8 × 3–4 mm; corolla white or creamy white, concolorous; banner 14–15.5 mm. |
Legumes | not or faintly mottled, becoming stramineous, narrowly ellipsoid, 20–45 mm, 7–10 mm wide when pressed; stipe 3–5 mm. |
not mottled, turning stramineous, much inflated, usually broadly obovoid or obovoid-ellipsoid, rarely semi-ellipsoid, 20–48 mm, (1–)1.2–2.2 mm wide when pressed; stipe 3–5(–6) mm. |
Seeds | 10–20. |
10–20. |
2n | = 22. |
= 22. |
Astragalus cusickii var. packardiae |
Astragalus cusickii var. cusickii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Bare clay hillsides. | Rocky and gravelly slopes, canyon terraces, ledges of basalt. |
Elevation | 800–1000 m. (2600–3300 ft.) | 400–1000 m. (1300–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID |
ID; OR; WA |
Discussion | Variety packardiae is known from Dry Creek in Payette County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety cusickii is known from Malheur County in Oregon, northward on both sides of the Snake River to Asotin County in Washington. The enclosed ovules or seeds of var. cusickii are partially visible through the walls of the balloonlike, transparent fruits. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | Barneby in A. Cronquist et al.: Intermount. Fl. 3(B): 78, plate [p. 79], fig. s.n. [upper right]. (1989) | unknown |
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