Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. macrolobus |
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Carson city milkvetch, floriferous freckled milkvetch, floriferous milk vetch, freckled milkvetch |
west Humboldt milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 20–50 cm. | Plants perennial (rarely flowering first year), 6–30 cm. |
Stems | prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally. |
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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. |
4–11 cm; leaflets (9–)13–19, blades obovate or oblanceolate, 4–20 mm, apex mostly retuse, surfaces strigulose-villosulous, some hairs spreading or sinuous. |
Racemes | (11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit; axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit. |
(8–)12–30-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis (2–)3–7(–9) cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 1–4(–7) cm. |
2.5–7 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. |
9.3–11.3 mm; calyx (4.5–)5–7.1 mm, tube 3–3.8 mm, lobes (1.5–)2–3.3 mm; corolla usually whitish, sometimes purple or 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, faintly mottled, or stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, 15–25 × (6–)8–14 mm, thinly papery, translucent, glabrous or strigulose; beak 3–7 mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | 15–21(–25). |
18–26. |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. macrolobus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Sagebrush communities, on sandy, granitic, or basaltic substrates. | On sand, with sagebrush. |
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.) |
Specimens of var. macrolobus, apparently flowering the first year, have been misidentified as Astragalus geyeri, which is clearly annual and has straight, appressed (not villosulous) indumentum. Variety macrolobus occurs in northern Nevada. To the north and east, it grades into var. salinus and to the west into var. floribundus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Cystium macrolobum | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 524. (1865) | (Rydberg) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 89. (1945) |
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