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Carson city milkvetch, floriferous freckled milkvetch, floriferous milk vetch, freckled milkvetch

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freckled milkvetch, schell creek milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, 20–50 cm. Plants perennial, 5–17 cm.
Stems

prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally.

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

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–)6–13 cm;

leaflets 11–17(–23), blades broadly obovate, ovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)6–15 mm, apex shallowly notched or obtuse.

Racemes

(11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit;

axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit.

shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit.

Peduncles

1–4(–7) cm.

1.5–6 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.

(11.3–)15–19 mm;

calyx (6.5–)7–12.5 mm, tube (4.5–)5.6–8.2 mm, lobes (1.4–)2–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

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.

green, red-mottled, becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, 1–2.5 × 0.7–1.6 cm, leathery, glabrous;

beak 2.5–5 mm, bilocular.

Seeds

15–21(–25).

(12–)22–28.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus

Astragalus lentiginosus var. latus

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Sagebrush communities, on sandy, granitic, or basaltic substrates. Open, gravelly slopes in timber belt.
Elevation 1100–1600(–2100) m. (3600–5200(–6900) ft.) (1700–)2200–3000 m. ((5600–)7200–9800 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; OR
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
NV
[BONAP county map]
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 latus is known from the Schell Creek and Egan ranges in White Pine County.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Diphysi > Astragalus lentiginosus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Diphysi > Astragalus lentiginosus
Sibling taxa
A. lentiginosus var. albifolius, A. lentiginosus var. ambiguus, A. lentiginosus var. antonius, A. lentiginosus var. australis, A. lentiginosus var. chartaceus, A. lentiginosus var. coachellae, A. lentiginosus var. coulteri, A. lentiginosus var. diphysus, A. lentiginosus var. fremontii, A. lentiginosus var. higginsii, A. lentiginosus var. idriensis, A. lentiginosus var. ineptus, A. lentiginosus var. kennedyi, A. lentiginosus var. kernensis, A. lentiginosus var. latus, A. lentiginosus var. lentiginosus, A. lentiginosus var. macrolobus, A. lentiginosus var. maricopae, A. lentiginosus var. micans, A. lentiginosus var. mokiacensis, A. lentiginosus var. multiracemosus, A. lentiginosus var. negundo, A. lentiginosus var. nigricalycis, A. lentiginosus var. oropedii, A. lentiginosus var. palans, A. lentiginosus var. piscinensis, A. lentiginosus var. platyphyllidius, A. lentiginosus var. pohlii, A. lentiginosus var. salinus, A. lentiginosus var. scorpionis, A. lentiginosus var. semotus, A. lentiginosus var. sesquimetralis, A. lentiginosus var. sierrae, A. lentiginosus var. stramineus, A. lentiginosus var. toyabensis, A. lentiginosus var. trumbullensis, A. lentiginosus var. variabilis, A. lentiginosus var. vitreus, A. lentiginosus var. wahweapensis, A. lentiginosus var. wilsonii, A. lentiginosus var. yuccanus
A. lentiginosus var. albifolius, A. lentiginosus var. ambiguus, A. lentiginosus var. antonius, A. lentiginosus var. australis, A. lentiginosus var. chartaceus, A. lentiginosus var. coachellae, A. lentiginosus var. coulteri, A. lentiginosus var. diphysus, A. lentiginosus var. floribundus, A. lentiginosus var. fremontii, A. lentiginosus var. higginsii, A. lentiginosus var. idriensis, A. lentiginosus var. ineptus, A. lentiginosus var. kennedyi, A. lentiginosus var. kernensis, A. lentiginosus var. lentiginosus, A. lentiginosus var. macrolobus, A. lentiginosus var. maricopae, A. lentiginosus var. micans, A. lentiginosus var. mokiacensis, A. lentiginosus var. multiracemosus, A. lentiginosus var. negundo, A. lentiginosus var. nigricalycis, A. lentiginosus var. oropedii, A. lentiginosus var. palans, A. lentiginosus var. piscinensis, A. lentiginosus var. platyphyllidius, A. lentiginosus var. pohlii, A. lentiginosus var. salinus, A. lentiginosus var. scorpionis, A. lentiginosus var. semotus, A. lentiginosus var. sesquimetralis, A. lentiginosus var. sierrae, A. lentiginosus var. stramineus, A. lentiginosus var. toyabensis, A. lentiginosus var. trumbullensis, A. lentiginosus var. variabilis, A. lentiginosus var. vitreus, A. lentiginosus var. wahweapensis, A. lentiginosus var. wilsonii, A. lentiginosus var. yuccanus
Synonyms A. diphysus var. latus
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 524. (1865) (M. E. Jones) M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 125. (1923)
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