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diehl's milkvetch

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Greene's milkvetch

Herbage

greenish cinereous.

greenish cinereous.

Stems

usually obviously flexuous, 15–30(–40) cm.

15–40 cm.

Leaflets

(7–)11–17, blades mostly linear or narrowly oblong-oblanceolate.

(9–)13–23, blades linear-oblong to obovate-cuneate.

Racemes

12–26-flowered;

axis 2.5–9.5 cm in fruit.

(7–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2.5–10 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

2.5–7 cm.

1.5–13.5 cm.

Flowers

7–9 mm;

calyx 3.3–4.1 mm, tube 1.9–2.3 mm, lobes 0.7–1.1(–1.4) mm;

corolla banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel very strongly incurved through 120°, semiorbiculate, 5–5.5 mm.

9–10.8 mm;

calyx 3.5–6 mm, tube 2.8–4.2 mm, lobes 0.8–2 mm;

corolla banner recurved through 45–50°;

keel incurved through 90–100°, semiobovate, 7–8.2 mm.

Legumes

oblong-ellipsoid, turgid or inflated, 11–15(–20) × 3–4(–4.5) mm, strigulose;

sessile.

lanceoloid-ellipsoid to plumply ellipsoid, oblong-ellipsoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, turgid or inflated, (12–)14–23 × (4–)5–9 mm, base rounded when less than 5 mm wide, strigulose or villosulous;

stipe 0–0.5 mm.

Seeds

12–18.

16–25.

2n

= 22.

Astragalus flexuosus var. diehlii

Astragalus flexuosus var. greenei

Phenology Flowering late Apr–Jun. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Salt desert shrub and pinyon-juniper communities, on fine-textured substrates. Badlands, other semibarrens with pinyon-juniper or oak.
Elevation 1300–2100 m. (4300–6900 ft.) 1300–2600 m. (4300–8500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; NM
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety greenei closely resembles var. diehlii and, except for a small geographical disjunction, they easily could be combined.

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

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Scytocarpi > Astragalus flexuosus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Scytocarpi > Astragalus flexuosus
Sibling taxa
A. flexuosus var. flexuosus, A. flexuosus var. greenei
A. flexuosus var. diehlii, A. flexuosus var. flexuosus
Synonyms A. diehlii A. greenei
Name authority (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 54. (1944) (A. Gray) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 9: 91. (1960)
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