freckled milkvetch, schell creek milkvetch
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pohil's milkvetch, pohl's milkvetch
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Plants perennial, 5–17 cm. |
Plants perennial, 7–20 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. |
(4–)5–9 cm; leaflets 11–17, blades broadly obovate-cuneate or suborbiculate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse or retuse to emarginate. |
shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit. |
shortly and loosely 3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 1–3.5 cm in fruit. |
1.5–6 cm. |
1–4 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. |
20–23 mm; calyx 8.5–10.5 mm, tube 8–10 mm, lobes 2.4–3 mm; corolla whitish tinged with violet. |
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 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. |
(12–)22–28. |
24–32. |
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Flowering May–Jul. |
Flowering May–Jun. |
Open, gravelly slopes in timber belt. |
Greasewood, shadscale, horsebrush, and big sagebrush communities, vegetated sand dunes. |
(1700–)2200–3000 m. ((5600–)7200–9800 ft.) |
1300–1700 m. (4300–5600 ft.) |
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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 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. 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. 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 |
A. diphysus var. latus |
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(M. E. Jones) M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 125. (1923) |
S. L. Welsh & Barneby: Iselya 2: 1. (1981) |
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