Astragalus kentrophyta var. danaus
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus
Mount Dana kentrophyta, spiny milkvetch, Sweetwater Mountains. milk vetch
spiny milkvetch, talon kentrophyta
and herbage strigulose, hairs basifixed.
and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian.
0.4–1.5(–2) cm;
stipules somewhat dimorphic, 2–7 mm;
leaflets 3(–7), blades 3–7 mm.
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.
0.2–0.6 cm.
0.1–0.4 cm.
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.
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.
subsymmetrically lenticular, 3.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm.
obliquely lanceoloid-acuminate, 5–7.5 × 1.6–2 mm.
5–8.
2 or 3(or 4).
= 24.
= 24.
Astragalus kentrophyta var. danaus
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus
Variety danaus is restricted to high elevations in the southern Sierra Nevada.
(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.
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