Astragalus flexuosus var. greenei |
Astragalus sect. Scytocarpi |
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Greene's milkvetch |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex subterranean. | |
Herbage | greenish cinereous. |
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Stems | 15–40 cm. |
single or few to many. |
Leaves | odd-pinnate, subsessile to petiolate; leaflets (3–)7–25(–31), sometimes decurrent. |
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Leaflets | (9–)13–23, blades linear-oblong to obovate-cuneate. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Corollas | purple to pink or pink-purple, purplish, ochroleucous, yellowish, or whitish, banner recurved through 45–90°, keel apex obtuse or acute-triangular. |
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Calyx | tubes shallowly to deeply campanulate or subcylindric. |
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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. |
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Stipules | connate at proximal nodes, distinct ± distally. |
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2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus flexuosus var. greenei |
Astragalus sect. Scytocarpi |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |
Habitat | Badlands, other semibarrens with pinyon-juniper or oak. | |
Elevation | 1300–2600 m. (4300–8500 ft.) | |
Distribution |
AZ; NM |
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. |
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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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