Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. douglasii |
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Canyonlands kentrophyta, Colorado spiny milkvetch |
Douglas kentrophyta, Douglas' spiny milkvetch, spiny millk-vetch, thistle milk-vetch |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; UT |
OR; WA |
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. |
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Name authority | M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 10: 63. (1902) | Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 364. (1964) |
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