Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. vitreus |
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Carson city milkvetch, floriferous freckled milkvetch, floriferous milk vetch, freckled milkvetch |
freckled milkvetch, glass freckled milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 20–50 cm. | Plants perennial, 15–40 cm. |
Stems | prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally. |
glabrous or glabrate. |
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. |
4.5–10 cm; leaflets (7–)13–19, blades obovate-cuneate or oblong-obovate, (5–)7–17(–21) mm, apex obtuse or truncate-emarginate. |
Racemes | (11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit; axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit. |
loosely (10–)15–27-flowered, lax and open in fruit; axis 4–8.5 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 1–4(–7) cm. |
4–9.5 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. |
13.2–17 mm; calyx 6.5–8 mm, tube 4.6–5.7 mm, lobes (1.5–)1.7–2.3 mm; corolla pink-purple or lavender with white wing tips. |
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. |
pale green and unmottled turning pallid, usually broadly ovoid, rarely lunately lanceoloid-acuminate, usually strongly inflated, rarely less so, 15–25 × (7–)9–15 mm, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, lustrous, glabrous; beak triangular, short, unilocular. |
Seeds | 15–21(–25). |
21–31. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus lentiginosus var. floribundus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. vitreus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Sagebrush communities, on sandy, granitic, or basaltic substrates. | Gullied badlands and desert flats, on sand or clay derived from sandstone or limestone, on volcanic gravel. |
Elevation | 1100–1600(–2100) m. (3600–5200(–6900) ft.) | 800–1500(–2000) m. (2600–4900(–6600) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR |
AZ; UT |
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 vitreus is found in the valleys of the upper Virgin River and Kanab Creek, southward to the northern slope of the Kaibab Plateau, and Toroweap and House Rock valleys in eastern Washington and western Kane counties in Utah, and northern Mohave and northwestern Coconino counties in Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 524. (1865) | Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 119, plate 3, figs. 30–33. (1945) |
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