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freckled milkvetch, schell creek milkvetch

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pohil's milkvetch, pohl's milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, 5–17 cm. Plants perennial, 7–20 cm.
Stems

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

Leaves

(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.

Racemes

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.

Peduncles

1.5–6 cm.

1–4 cm.

Flowers

(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.

Legumes

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.

Seeds

(12–)22–28.

24–32.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. latus

Astragalus lentiginosus var. pohlii

Phenology Flowering May–Jul. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Open, gravelly slopes in timber belt. Greasewood, shadscale, horse­brush, and big sagebrush communities, vegetated sand dunes.
Elevation (1700–)2200–3000 m. ((5600–)7200–9800 ft.) 1300–1700 m. (4300–5600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
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from FNA
UT
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Discussion

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.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Diphysi > Astragalus lentiginosus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Diphysi > Astragalus lentiginosus
Sibling taxa
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
Synonyms A. diphysus var. latus
Name authority (M. E. Jones) M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 125. (1923) S. L. Welsh & Barneby: Iselya 2: 1. (1981)
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