freckled milkvetch, schell creek milkvetch
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northern freckled milkvetch, Owens Valley milkvetch, white leaf milk vetch
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Plants perennial, 5–17 cm. |
Plants perennial, halophyte, 30–100 cm. |
usually ascending, rarely prostrate. |
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(4–)6–13 cm; leaflets 11–17(–23), blades broadly obovate, ovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)6–15 mm, apex shallowly notched or obtuse. |
2–9 cm; leaflets (9 or)11–17(–21), blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly oblong, (3–)5–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse or subacute. |
shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit. |
(9–)12–35-flowered, crowded into subglobose or cylindric heads, short and compact in fruit; axis obscured, (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit. |
1.5–6 cm. |
(1–)1.5–6.5 cm. |
(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. |
8.2–11.5 mm; calyx 5–7.3 mm, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.8 mm; corolla whitish, sometimes with purple veins, or pink-purple with white wing tips. |
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. |
pale green and purple-mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate, bladdery-inflated, 9–17 × 8–14 mm, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, strigulose; beak decurved, triangular, 3–5 mm, unilocular. |
(12–)22–28. |
10–15. |
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Flowering May–Jul. |
Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Open, gravelly slopes in timber belt. |
Saline, summer-dry flats about seepage areas in lower foothills, on clay soils moist in springtime. |
(1700–)2200–3000 m. ((5600–)7200–9800 ft.) |
600–1500 m. (2000–4900 ft.) |
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CA |
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.) |
Variety albifolius was described as an elongate, ungainly, trailing or scrambling halophyte (D. Isely 1998); it occurs at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County near Big Pine and Lone Pine, near Muroc in Kern County, and near Lancaster in Los Angeles County. Astragalus albifolius (M. E. Jones) Abrams is an illegitimate later homonym of A. albifolius Freyn & Sintenis 1893. (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. 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 |
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. 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. diphysus var. latus |
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(M. E. Jones) M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 125. (1923) |
M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 124. (1923) |
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