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Astragalus lentiginosus var. lentiginosus
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freckled milk-vetch, specklepod milk-vetch
Habit Plants perennial, 10–30(–50) cm, sparsely strigulose.
Leaves

3–10 cm;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades broadly obovate, obovate-cuneate, or oblong-elliptic to suborbiculate or oblanceolate, (3–)5–15 mm, apex retuse or obtuse.
Racemes

8–18(–22)-flowered;

axis 0.5–3(–3.5) cm in fruit.
Peduncles

1–3.5 cm.
Flowers

7.4–11 mm;

calyx 4.1–6.4 mm, tube 2.8–4.2 mm, lobes 1–2.2 mm;

corolla whitish or yellowish, sometimes faintly lilac.
Legumes

green, usually mottled, becoming stramineous or brownish, obliquely ovoid-acuminate to lanceoloid-acuminate, strongly to scarcely inflated, 10–23 × (3–)4.5–10 mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery, opaque or nearly so, usually thinly strigulose, rarely puberulent;

beak 4–9 mm, unilocular.
Seeds

(15 or)16–21.
2n

= 22.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. lentiginosus
Phenology Flowering May–early Jul.
Habitat Often on volcanic soils, on basalt, with sagebrush and bunchgrass, in ponderosa pine and western juniper communities.
Elevation 200–1500 m. (700–4900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; NV; OR; WA; BC
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety lentiginosus is widespread in the northern part of its range and is partially sympatric with vars. platyphyllidius and salinus in the southern part of its range. It is transitional to both.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa 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. latus, 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
Synonyms A. lentiginosus var. carinatus
Name authority unknown
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