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Canyonlands kentrophyta, Colorado spiny milkvetch

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Mount Dana kentrophyta, spiny milkvetch, Sweetwater Mountains. milk vetch

Habit Plants loosely mat- or clump-forming, low, to 12 cm. Plants prostrate, mat- or cushion-forming, to 15 cm wide.
Stems

and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian.

and herbage strigulose, hairs basifixed.

Leaves

0.9–2.4 cm;

stipules 1–12 mm;

leaflets (3 or)5(or 7), blades 4–15 mm, surfaces pubescent.

0.4–1.5(–2) cm;

stipules somewhat dimorphic, 2–7 mm;

leaflets 3(–7), blades 3–7 mm.

Peduncles

0.2–0.6 cm.

0.2–0.6 cm.

Flowers

7.3–10 mm;

calyx 6–8.3 mm, tube 2.4–3.3 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 3.4–5 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

4–5.6 mm;

calyx 2.4–3.2 mm, tube 1.6–1.9 mm, lobes subulate to setaceous, 0.8–1.3 mm;

corolla purple or whitish and keel purple.

Legumes

subsymmetrically ellipsoid, lanceoloid- or oblong-ellipsoid, (5–)7–10 × 2.8–4 mm.

subsymmetrically lenticular, 3.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm.

Seeds

4–8.

5–8.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis

Astragalus kentrophyta var. danaus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun. Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Sandy wash bottoms, sandy pockets on sandstone rimrock, in mixed desert shrub communities. Gravelly slopes and talus upward from timberline, or in bristle-cone pine forest.
Elevation 900–1700 m. (3000–5600 ft.) 3000–4000 m. (9800–13100 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; UT
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Variety coloradoensis is known from north-central Arizona and south-central Utah.

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

Variety danaus is restricted to high elevations in the southern Sierra Nevada.

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

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Ervoidei > Astragalus kentrophyta Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Ervoidei > Astragalus kentrophyta
Sibling taxa
A. kentrophyta var. danaus, A. kentrophyta var. douglasii, A. kentrophyta var. elatus, A. kentrophyta var. jessiae, A. kentrophyta var. kentrophyta, A. kentrophyta var. neomexicanus, A. kentrophyta var. tegetarius, A. kentrophyta var. ungulatus
A. kentrophyta var. coloradoensis, A. kentrophyta var. douglasii, A. kentrophyta var. elatus, A. kentrophyta var. jessiae, A. kentrophyta var. kentrophyta, A. kentrophyta var. neomexicanus, A. kentrophyta var. tegetarius, A. kentrophyta var. ungulatus
Synonyms A. tegetarius var. danaus
Name authority M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 10: 63. (1902) (Barneby) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 154. (1951)
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