Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus |
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Canyonlands kentrophyta, Colorado spiny milkvetch |
spiny milkvetch, talon kentrophyta |
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Habit | Plants loosely mat- or clump-forming, low, to 12 cm. | Plants prostrate, mat- or cushion-forming, 8–20 cm wide. |
Stems | and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian. |
and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian. |
Leaves | 0.9–2.4 cm; stipules 1–12 mm; leaflets (3 or)5(or 7), blades 4–15 mm, surfaces pubescent. |
0.5–1.3 cm; stipules dimorphic, those at proximal nodes connate, those at distal nodes free and ± spine-tipped, 1.5–4 mm; leaflets (3 or)5, blades 3–9 mm. |
Peduncles | 0.2–0.6 cm. |
0.1–0.4 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. |
5.2–6.5 mm; calyx 3.6–4.7 mm, tube 1.8–2.1 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 1.8–2.6 mm; corolla whitish, keel tip purplish. |
Legumes | subsymmetrically ellipsoid, lanceoloid- or oblong-ellipsoid, (5–)7–10 × 2.8–4 mm. |
obliquely lanceoloid-acuminate, 5–7.5 × 1.6–2 mm. |
Seeds | 4–8. |
2 or 3(or 4). |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. coloradoensis |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Sandy wash bottoms, sandy pockets on sandstone rimrock, in mixed desert shrub communities. | Calcareous gravel or gravelly clay knolls and hillsides with sagebrush. |
Elevation | 900–1700 m. (3000–5600 ft.) | 1500–2200(–3000) m. (4900–7200(–9800) ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; UT |
CA; NV |
Discussion | Variety coloradoensis is known from north-central Arizona and south-central Utah. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety ungulatus contributes to the peculiar pseudo-alpine, mound- and cushion-forming vegetation on the knolls and valley floors and foothills in the high valleys of central and northeastern Nevada and Mono County, California. (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) | M. E. Jones: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 5: 650. (1895) |
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