Astragalus kentrophyta var. douglasii |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus |
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Douglas kentrophyta, Douglas' spiny milkvetch, spiny millk-vetch, thistle milk-vetch |
spiny milkvetch, talon kentrophyta |
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Habit | Plants prostrate, densely mat-forming, becoming suffruticose. | Plants prostrate, mat- or cushion-forming, 8–20 cm wide. |
Stems | and herbage strigulose, hairs basifixed. |
and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian. |
Leaves | 1–1.7 cm; stipules dimorphic, 2–5 mm; leaflets 5(or 7), blades 5–12 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 | subobsolete. |
0.1–0.4 cm. |
Flowers | 5.8 mm; calyx 4.7–5.2 mm, tube 2.2–2.4 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 2.3–3 mm; corolla whitish. |
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 | lanceoloid, 5–5.5 × 2 mm. |
obliquely lanceoloid-acuminate, 5–7.5 × 1.6–2 mm. |
Seeds | 2. |
2 or 3(or 4). |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. douglasii |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Sandy substrates. | Calcareous gravel or gravelly clay knolls and hillsides with sagebrush. |
Elevation | 150–400 m. (500–1300 ft.) | 1500–2200(–3000) m. (4900–7200(–9800) ft.) |
Distribution |
OR; WA |
CA; NV |
Discussion | 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.) |
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 | Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 364. (1964) | M. E. Jones: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 5: 650. (1895) |
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