Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. tegetarius |
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Canyonlands kentrophyta, Colorado spiny milkvetch |
mat milk vetch, mountain kentrophyta |
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Habit | Plants loosely mat- or clump-forming, low, to 12 cm. | Plants prostrate, cushion-forming, 5–40(–50) cm wide. |
Stems | and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian. |
and herbage densely to sparsely strigulose, villosulous, or villous, hairs basifixed. |
Leaves | 0.9–2.4 cm; stipules 1–12 mm; leaflets (3 or)5(or 7), blades 4–15 mm, surfaces pubescent. |
(0.2–)0.4–1.5(–2) cm; stipules 2–7 mm; leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades 1–9 mm, surfaces pubescent or adaxially glabrous or medially glabrescent. |
Peduncles | 0.2–0.6 cm. |
0–1.5(–3) 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. |
(3.9–)4.5–8(–9.2) mm; calyx (2–)2.4–5.7(–7) mm, tube 1.2–2.6(–2.8) mm, lobes subulate to setaceous, (0.5–)1.9–2.6(–4.2) mm; corolla usually purple or purplish, sometimes white and keel tip pink or purplish. |
Legumes | subsymmetrically ellipsoid, lanceoloid- or oblong-ellipsoid, (5–)7–10 × 2.8–4 mm. |
ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, (3–)4–8(–9) × (0.6–)2–2.5 mm. |
Seeds | 4–8. |
(3–)5–8. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. tegetarius |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Sandy wash bottoms, sandy pockets on sandstone rimrock, in mixed desert shrub communities. | Ridgetops, breaks, alpine shrub and tundra with Phlox, Geum rossii, other forbs, grasses, less commonly with shrubs and trees, often in barrens. |
Elevation | 900–1700 m. (3000–5600 ft.) | 2000–3700 m. (6600–12100 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; UT |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WY |
Discussion | Variety coloradoensis is known from north-central Arizona and south-central Utah. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The moderately large, usually purplish flowers borne just above the mat of foliage set var. tegetarius apart and make it one of the showiest phases of the species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. tegetarius, A. aculeatus, A. kentrophyta subsp. implexus, A. kentrophyta var. implexus, A. kentrophyta var. rotundus, A. montanus var. rotundus, A. montanus var. tegetarius, A. tegetarius var. implexus, A. tegetarius var. rotundus, Homalobus aculeatus, H. tegetarius, H. wolfii, Kentrophyta aculeata, K. minima, K. rotunda, K. tegetaria, K. wolfii, Tragacantha tegetaria | |
Name authority | M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 10: 63. (1902) | (S. Watson) Dorn: Vasc. Pl. Wyoming, 297. (1988) |
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