Astragalus kentrophyta var. neomexicanus
Astragalus kentrophyta var. kentrophyta
New Mexican kentrophyta, New Mexico spiny milkvetch
spiny milkvetch
and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian.
and herbage strigulose, hairs basifixed or obscurely malpighian.
0.8–2.2 cm;
stipules uniform, connate to 1/2 their length, 1–1.5(–2.5) mm;
leaflets usually 5, blades 3–13 mm.
(0.7–)1–2.5 cm;
stipules dimorphic, those at proximal nodes connate into short, bidentate sheath, those at distal nodes longer, connate at base only, lanceolate or lanceolate-acuminate, often without spines, 2–7 mm;
leaflets 5 or 7, blades 7–12 mm, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous or glabrescent adaxially.
0.1–0.3 cm.
subobsolete to 0.2 cm.
4.8–5.2 mm;
calyx 2.4–3.3 mm, tube 1.8–2.1 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 0.7–1.5 mm;
corolla whitish.
4–5.5 mm;
calyx 3.4–4 mm, tube 1.9–2.4 mm, lobes subulate to setaceous, 1.4–2 mm;
corolla whitish.
obliquely ovoid, 3–4 × 1.8–2.4 mm.
subsymmetrically ovoid-lenticular, (3.5–)4–7 × 2.4–3.8 mm.
2 or 3.
2 or 3(or 4).
= 24.
= 24.
Astragalus kentrophyta var. neomexicanus
Astragalus kentrophyta var. kentrophyta
Variety neomexicanus is predominantly of the northwestern quarter of New Mexico, with outlying populations along the drainage of the Pecos River in De Baca and Chaves counties. Plants from the latter area have somewhat the habit of var. kentrophyta but the pungent leaflets and short calyx lobes of var. neomexicanus.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Variety kentrophyta is a taxon of the High Plains from southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan through eastern Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, the western Dakotas, and western Nebraska.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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