Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. tegetarius |
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spiny milkvetch, talon kentrophyta |
mat milk vetch, mountain kentrophyta |
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Habit | Plants prostrate, mat- or cushion-forming, 8–20 cm wide. | 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 | 0.5–1.3 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–)0.4–1.5(–2) cm; stipules 2–7 mm; leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades 1–9 mm, surfaces pubescent or adaxially glabrous or medially glabrescent. |
Peduncles | 0.1–0.4 cm. |
0–1.5(–3) cm. |
Flowers | 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. |
(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 | obliquely lanceoloid-acuminate, 5–7.5 × 1.6–2 mm. |
ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, (3–)4–8(–9) × (0.6–)2–2.5 mm. |
Seeds | 2 or 3(or 4). |
(3–)5–8. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. ungulatus |
Astragalus kentrophyta var. tegetarius |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Calcareous gravel or gravelly clay knolls and hillsides with sagebrush. | Ridgetops, breaks, alpine shrub and tundra with Phlox, Geum rossii, other forbs, grasses, less commonly with shrubs and trees, often in barrens. |
Elevation | 1500–2200(–3000) m. (4900–7200(–9800) ft.) | 2000–3700 m. (6600–12100 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WY |
Discussion | 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.) |
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: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 5: 650. (1895) | (S. Watson) Dorn: Vasc. Pl. Wyoming, 297. (1988) |
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