Higgins' freckled milkvetch, Higgins' milkvetch
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pohil's milkvetch, pohl's milkvetch
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Plants perennial, 15–25 cm. |
Plants perennial, 7–20 cm. |
3–11 cm; leaflets 15–21, blades lanceolate-elliptic to obovate, 8–18 mm, apex emarginate. |
(4–)5–9 cm; leaflets 11–17, blades broadly obovate-cuneate or suborbiculate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse or retuse to emarginate. |
7–17-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 1–4 cm in fruit. |
shortly and loosely 3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 1–3.5 cm in fruit. |
3–6.5 cm. |
1–4 cm. |
17–20 mm; calyx 7–10.4 mm, tube 6–6.8 mm, lobes 3–3.5 mm; corolla pale violet. |
20–23 mm; calyx 8.5–10.5 mm, tube 8–10 mm, lobes 2.4–3 mm; corolla whitish tinged with violet. |
green, sometimes mottled, becoming stramineous, ovoid, greatly inflated, 19–27 × 11–16(–19) mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery, thinly translucent, glabrous. |
pale green or purple-speckled becoming stramineous or brownish, plumply ovoid, strongly inflated, 23–33 × 10–15 mm, ± bilocular, leathery or stiffly papery, minutely strigulose; beak 5–15 mm, unilocular; stipe 0.5–1.5 mm. |
30–35. |
24–32. |
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Flowering Apr–early Jun. |
Flowering May–Jun. |
Sandy to loamy soils, with Ptelea-Rhus-Prosopis, and yucca, oak, mesquite communities. |
Greasewood, shadscale, horsebrush, and big sagebrush communities, vegetated sand dunes. |
800–1100 m. (2600–3600 ft.) |
1300–1700 m. (4300–5600 ft.) |
NM; TX |
UT |
Variety higginsii, from Chaves County in New Mexico, and Hudspeth, Hutchinson, and Potter counties in Texas, almost certainly is a derivative of var. diphysus, differing only in its pale flowers. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety pohlii is restricted to the Rush and Skull valleys in Tooele County. The shortly stipitate fruit is unusual among varieties of Astragalus lentiginosus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
FNA vol. 11. |
FNA vol. 11. |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Diphysi > Astragalus lentiginosus |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Diphysi > Astragalus lentiginosus |
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. 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. 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. 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 |
S. L. Welsh & K. H. Thorne: Brittonia 33: 296, fig. 2. (1981) |
S. L. Welsh & Barneby: Iselya 2: 1. (1981) |
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