Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. kennedyi |
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Carson city milkvetch, floriferous freckled milkvetch, floriferous milk vetch, freckled milkvetch |
Kennedy's freckled milkvetch, Kennedy's milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 20–50 cm. | Plants biennial or perennial (short-lived), (10–)15–40(–50) cm; herbage villosulous. |
Stems | prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally. |
decumbent and ascending. |
Leaves | 3–8(–11) cm; leaflets 11–15(–19), blades obovate or oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, apex retuse, surfaces glabrate to densely strigulose, hairs appressed or subappressed. |
4.5–12(–15) cm; leaflets (9–)15–21(or 23), blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, (5–)7–20 mm, apex obtuse, emarginate, or retuse. |
Racemes | (11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit; axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit. |
loosely (10–)15–35-flowered, lax and open in fruit; axis (3.5–)5–12 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 1–4(–7) cm. |
(3–)4.5–7.5 cm. |
Flowers | 8.8–11 mm; calyx 4–6.5 mm, tube 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–1.4(–2) mm; corolla whitish, sometimes wings and keel with lavender tips. |
(11.8–)12.5–17 mm; calyx 6.1–8.8 mm, tube 4.1–5.7 mm, lobes 1.6–3.1 mm; corolla bright pink. |
Legumes | faintly mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, (8–)12–21 × (6–)7–12 mm, thinly papery, translucent, glabrous or strigulose; beak 3–7 mm, unilocular. |
stramineous, usually narrowly ovoid-acuminate, more rarely plumply so, bladdery-inflated, (20–)25–30 × 9–15 mm, papery-membranous, usually lustrous, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent; beak 5–9 mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | 15–21(–25). |
(24–)26–36. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. kennedyi |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Sagebrush communities, on sandy, granitic, or basaltic substrates. | Alkaline dunes, sandy valleys, dry stony knolls, sometimes on volcanic gravel or cinders. |
Elevation | 1100–1600(–2100) m. (3600–5200(–6900) ft.) | 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR |
NV |
Discussion | Variety floribundus is the only member of Astragalus lentiginosus in the Lake Tahoe area; it occurs along the eastern flanks of the Sierra Nevada, passing into var. ineptus in Mono County, and extends northward into southeastern Oregon, where it grades into var. salinus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety kennedyi is a locally abundant endemic of west-central Nevada, blending with var. fremontii in the south. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Cystium kennedyi | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 524. (1865) | (Rydberg) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 121. (1945) |
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