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Canyonlands kentrophyta, Colorado spiny milkvetch

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Douglas kentrophyta, Douglas' spiny milkvetch, spiny millk-vetch, thistle milk-vetch

Habit Plants loosely mat- or clump-forming, low, to 12 cm. Plants prostrate, densely mat-forming, becoming suffruticose.
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.

1–1.7 cm;

stipules dimorphic, 2–5 mm;

leaflets 5(or 7), blades 5–12 mm, surfaces pubescent.

Peduncles

0.2–0.6 cm.

subobsolete.

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.

5.8 mm;

calyx 4.7–5.2 mm, tube 2.2–2.4 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 2.3–3 mm;

corolla whitish.

Legumes

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

lanceoloid, 5–5.5 × 2 mm.

Seeds

4–8.

2.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis

Astragalus kentrophyta var. douglasii

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun. Flowering Jun.
Habitat Sandy wash bottoms, sandy pockets on sandstone rimrock, in mixed desert shrub communities. Sandy substrates.
Elevation 900–1700 m. (3000–5600 ft.) 150–400 m. (500–1300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; UT
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from FNA
OR; WA
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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 douglasii is known from only a few, vague historical records, probably taken near the present city of Walla Walla near the Great Bend of the Columbia River, and appears to be extinct.

(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. danaus, A. kentrophyta var. elatus, A. kentrophyta var. jessiae, A. kentrophyta var. kentrophyta, A. kentrophyta var. neomexicanus, A. kentrophyta var. tegetarius, A. kentrophyta var. ungulatus
Name authority M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 10: 63. (1902) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 364. (1964)
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