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Greene's milkvetch

Habit Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex subterranean.
Herbage

greenish cinereous.

Stems

15–40 cm.

single or few to many.

Leaves

odd-pinnate, subsessile to petiolate;

leaflets (3–)7–25(–31), sometimes decurrent.

Leaflets

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

Racemes

(7–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2.5–10 cm in fruit.

loosely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, or declined.

Peduncles

1.5–13.5 cm.

Flowers

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.

Corollas

purple to pink or pink-purple, purplish, ochroleucous, yellowish, or whitish, banner recurved through 45–90°, keel apex obtuse or acute-triangular.

Calyx

tubes shallowly to deeply campanulate or subcylindric.

Legumes

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.

persistent, sessile or subsessile to stipitate, spreading to declined, deflexed, or pendulous, oblong, ellipsoid, subglobose, or cylindroid, sometimes bladdery-inflated, 3-sided, subterete, or compression lateral or dorsiventral, unilocular.

Seeds

16–25.

4–36.

Hairs

basifixed.

Stipules

connate at proximal nodes, distinct ± distally.

2n

= 22.

Astragalus flexuosus var. greenei

Astragalus sect. Scytocarpi

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Badlands, other semibarrens with pinyon-juniper or oak.
Elevation 1300–2600 m. (4300–8500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM
[BONAP county map]
w North America; Mexico; c North America
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.)

Species 14 (13 in the flora).

In the flora area, sect. Scytocarpi consists of 13 species in six subsections found on the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Colorado Basin, southward through Arizona, New Mexico, trans-Pecos Texas, and northeastern Mexico; one other subsection is found only in northeastern Mexico.

The subsections are: subsect. Scytocarpi (A. Gray) Barneby (Astragalus flexuosus, A. fucatus, A. pictiformis, A. proximus, and A. subcinereus); subsect. Wingatani Barneby (A. cliffordii and A. wingatanus); subsect. Microlobi (A. Gray) Barneby (A. gracilis); subsect. Microcymbi S. L. Welsh (A. microcymbus); subsect. Halliani (Rydberg) Barneby (A. castetteri, A. hallii, and A. puniceus); subsect. Shevockiani Barneby (A. shevockii); and subsect. Antonini Barneby (A. coriaceus Hemsley), which is confined to Mexico.

(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
Sibling taxa
A. flexuosus var. diehlii, A. flexuosus var. flexuosus
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms A. greenei
Name authority (A. Gray) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 9: 91. (1960) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 222. (1864)
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