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yellow milkvetch
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Plants forming tufts. |
Plants tuft- or clump-forming, 5–30(–40) cm, strigulose, hairs malpighian; from branched, superficial caudex. |
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decumbent to ascending or erect, usually strigulose, rarely pilose-pilosulous, usually cinereous or canescent, rarely greenish. |
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3–15(–18) cm; stipules connate, 2–10 mm, papery-scarious; leaflets (5–)9–21, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or oblanceolate to ovate, 3–31 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces silvery-strigose, rarely greenish, or glabrate or glabrous adaxially. |
slightly to much surpassing leaves. |
6–30-flowered; axis 2–15 cm in fruit; bracts 1.5–5 mm; bracteoles 0. |
usually to 12 cm. |
erect or ascending, (3–)5–23 cm, surpassing subtending leaves. |
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0.7–1.2 mm. |
11–17.8 mm; calyx 4–7.5 mm, strigose to short-villous, tube 3.2–5.2 mm; corolla usually cream to lemon yellow, rarely suffused with pale pink or purple. |
9–17.8 mm; calyx campanulate, 4–10 mm, pilosulous, strigulose, or hirsute, tube 3–5.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate to narrowly triangular, 2–6 mm; corolla usually cream, lemon yellow, white, stramineous, reddish lilac, reddish purple, blue, rarely pink-purple or suffused with pale pink or purple; banner recurved through 45(–90)°; keel 6.5–10 mm. |
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erect, stramineous, straight, oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, 7–13 × 3.5–5.5 mm, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigose. |
8–17. |
(6–)8–17. |
= 24, 26. |
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Flowering Apr–Jul(–Sep). |
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Seleniferous substrates composed of saline silts and clays derived from Triassic Chinle and Moenkopi, Jurassic Arapien Shale, Entrada, Curtis, Summerville, Morrison, and Cedar Mountain formations, and from Cretaceous Mancos Shale and Tropic Shale formations, and other similarly fine-textured Tertiary formations, in salt desert shrub, pinyon-juniper communities. |
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800–2300 m. (2600–7500 ft.) |
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AZ; CO; NM; UT; WY |
w United States
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Sheep poisoning attributable to var. flavus, possibly due to ingestion of selenium, is known from lower elevations of the Uinta Basin in northeastern Utah. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Astragalus flavus occupies usually fine-textured, seleniferous clay, mud, and silt. The characters used to distinguish varieties are not absolute; varieties intergrade, and populations within varieties often have different features. In this treatment, plants previously known as var. candicans A. Gray from the vicinity of Richfield, Sevier County, Utah, (the type locality) are included in var. flavus. Plants known as var. candicans A. Gray from southern Nevada across southern Utah and northern Arizona to southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico here are placed in var. higginsii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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1. Calyces hirsute; corollas usually reddish lilac, reddish purple, or blue, rarely white; Emery, Garfield, Grand, and Wayne counties, Utah. | var. argillosus |
1. Calyces strigose to short-villous; corollas usually cream, lemon yellow, white, or stramineous, rarely pink-purple or suffused with pale pink or purple; Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming. | → 2 |
2. Peduncles usually to 12 cm; racemes slightly to much surpassing leaves; corollas usually cream to lemon yellow, rarely suffused with pale pink or purple; ne Arizona, Colorado, nw New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming. | var. flavus |
2. Peduncles usually 12–23 cm; racemes surpassing leaves; corollas usually white to cream or stramineous, rarely pink-purple; s Nevada, Washington County, Utah, eastward through n Arizona to sw Colorado, nw New Mexico. | var. higginsii |
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FNA vol. 11. |
FNA vol. 11. |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Ocreati > Astragalus flavus |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Ocreati |
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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. 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 |
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Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 335. (1838) |
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