Astragalus lentiginosus var. latus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. wahweapensis |
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freckled milkvetch, schell creek milkvetch |
wahweap freckled milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 5–17 cm. | Plants perennial (short-lived, sometimes flowering first year), 10–25(–35) cm. |
Stems | usually ascending, rarely prostrate. |
diffuse and incurved-ascending. |
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. |
(2.5–)4–11 cm; leaflets 13–23, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, broadly oblong-oblanceolate, or obovate, (3–)5–17(–20) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate. |
Racemes | shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit. |
10–20-flowered, flowering from middle and distally, compact to loose in fruit; axis 1.5–5.5(–7) cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 1.5–6 cm. |
2.5–6(–7.5) 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. |
(12.5–)15–18.2 mm; calyx (6.2–)7.5–10.5 mm, tube (4.6–)5.2–6.7 mm, lobes 1.4–3.8 mm; corolla usually bright pink-purple with pale, striate eye, rarely white (concolorous). |
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. |
green, sometimes stramineous or purple-mottled, almost always very strongly incurved, very obliquely ovoid-acuminate, moderately or greatly inflated, 15–30(–40) × (7–)9–15 mm, bilocular, thinly papery, semitranslucent, seeds visible, to almost leathery, opaque, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent; beak well-defined, triangular or deltoid, 6–15 mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | (12–)22–28. |
(20–)24–28. |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. latus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. wahweapensis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Open, gravelly slopes in timber belt. | Pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, and mixed desert shrub communities. |
Elevation | (1700–)2200–3000 m. ((5600–)7200–9800 ft.) | 1400–1900 m. (4600–6200 ft.) |
Distribution |
NV |
AZ; UT |
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 wahweapensis may be very abundant in wetter years, filling the interspaces in pinyon-juniper woodland much like an alfalfa field. It is found on the plateaus and drainages affluent to Lake Powell in eastern Kane and Garfield counties in Utah, and in northern Arizona. Variety wahweapensis grades into the slender-podded var. palans to the east and the ovoid-fruited var. diphysus southward. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. diphysus var. latus | |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 125. (1923) | S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 38: 286. (1978) |
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