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barren milkvetch
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Cusick's milk-vetch
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| Plants from subterranean caudex, sometimes with stolonlike branches, 2–8 cm underground; distal leaves mostly foliose. |
Plants clump-forming, slender, 30–70 cm, strigulose; from subterranean or superficial caudex. |
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erect to ascending, strigulose. |
stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes; leaflets 7–11, blades to 2–5 mm, surfaces strigulose adaxially (often densely so); terminal leaflet not jointed to slightly dilated rachis. |
4–10(–13) cm; stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 0.5–4.5 mm; leaflets 13–21, blades linear to linear-filiform, (5–)7–15(–17) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose or adaxially glabrous; terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis. |
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becoming loosely (3–)4–14(–18)-flowered; axis 1–8.5 cm in fruit; bracts 0.8–1.5 mm; bracteoles 0. |
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erect or incurved-ascending, 5–15(–22) cm. |
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ascending, 1.2–3.5 mm. |
calyx 3–3.6 × 2.2–2.5 mm; corolla ochroleucous, fading yellowish; banner 9–10 mm. |
12.5–15.5 mm; calyx campanulate, obliquely cuneate, 4–6.7 mm, silky-villous, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 3.2–5.8 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm; corolla white, creamy white, or purplish, banner recurved through 40°; keel 8–11 mm, apex bluntly deltate or triangular, often slightly beaklike. |
purple-mottled, obliquely ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–25 mm, (1–)1.2–2.2 mm wide when pressed; stipe 3 mm. |
pale green, sometimes also red-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly curved, obliquely obovoid, semi-obovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–48 × 5–16(–22) mm, papery-membranous, translucent, apex differentiated into broad, low-deltoid beak, glabrous; stipe (5–)8–12 mm. |
17–20. |
10–20. |
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| Flowering Jun–Jul. |
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| Barren clay and white or brown ash soils, bluffs, talus slopes, open hilltops. |
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| 1400–1500 m. (4600–4900 ft.) |
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ID; OR |
nw United States
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D. Isely (1998) maintained var. sterilis, a rare and local endemic from Owyhee County, Idaho, and Malheur County, Oregon, at the specific level, suggesting that it was derived from Astragalus cusickii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). Astragalus cusickii is known from the great canyons of the Snake and lower Salmon rivers and their tributaries; it is peripheral to the closely related, variable A. whitneyi, from which it differs conspicuously in its reduced foliage. The varieties of A. cusickii seem to have resulted from its geographical isolation and ability to adapt in various habitats. Recent phylogenetic analysis indicates that three monophyletic entities exist within traditional Astragalus cusickii and justification exists to recognize each as a distinct species (J. F. Smith and J. C. Zimmers 2017; Zimmers et al. 2017). Two of the present varieties, vars. packardiae and sterilis, would become A. packardiae (Barneby) J. F. Smith & Zimmers and A. sterilis Barneby, respectively, with var. flexilipes maintained within A. cusickii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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1. Leaflets 9–15(or 17), blade surfaces glabrous adaxially; calyces 3.2–4.4 mm; legumes semi-obovoid or semi-ellipsoid, 6–12 mm wide when pressed; lower Salmon and Little Salmon rivers, Idaho and Adams counties, Idaho, Asotin County, Washington. | var. flexilipes |
1. Leaflets (5 or)7–11(or 13), blade surfaces usually strigulose (often densely so); calyces 3–5.8 mm; legumes usually broadly obovoid or obovoid-ellipsoid, rarely semi-ellipsoid, (1–)1.2–2.2 mm wide when pressed; Snake River canyon and streams affluent from the west, ne Oregon, immediately adjacent Idaho, and extreme se corner of Washington. | → 2 |
2. Leaflets to 2–5 mm, terminal leaflet not jointed with rachis to slightly dilated; plants from subterranean caudex, sometimes with stolonlike branches; legumes purple-mottled; Owyhee County, Idaho, and Malheur County, Oregon. | var. sterilis |
2. Leaflets to 5–18(–27) mm, terminal leaflet jointed or continuous with rachises; plants from shallow subterranean or superficial caudex; legumes not or faintly mottled; wc Idaho, e Oregon (including Malheur County), and se Washington. | → 3 |
3. Leaves foliose distally; calyces 4.4–5.8 mm; corollas white or creamy white, concolorous, banners 14–15.5 mm; legumes much inflated, 1–2 cm wide when pressed; Malheur County, Oregon, n on both sides of the Snake River to Asotin County, Washington. | var. cusickii |
3. Leaves reduced to naked rachis distally; calyces 3.7–4.3 mm; corollas purplish, banners 8.5–10.5 mm; legumes narrowly ellipsoid, 7–10 mm wide; Payette County, Idaho. | var. packardiae |
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| FNA vol. 11. |
FNA vol. 11. |
| Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Cusickiani > Astragalus cusickii |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Cusickiani |
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| (Barneby) Barneby in A. Cronquist et al.: Intermount. Fl. 3(B): 78. (1989) |
A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 13: 370. (1878) |
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