Astragalus lentiginosus var. lentiginosus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. toyabensis |
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freckled milk-vetch, specklepod milk-vetch |
toyabe milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 10–30(–50) cm, sparsely strigulose. | Plants perennial, 10–30 cm. |
Stems | usually ascending, rarely prostrate. |
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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. |
3–13(–16) cm; leaflets (7–)15–25, blades oval-obovate, broadly oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, (2–)6–16(–21)mm, apex obtuse and apiculate, truncate, acute, or subacute. |
Racemes | 8–18(–22)-flowered; axis 0.5–3(–3.5) cm in fruit. |
7–18-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 1–2.5(–5) cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 1–3.5 cm. |
1.5–4.5(–6.5) 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. |
12.6–17 mm; calyx (6.2–)6.7–10 mm, tube 5–6.5 mm, lobes (1.2–)1.6–3.5(–4) mm; corolla usually pink-purple, rarely whitish. |
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. |
usually mottled becoming stramineous, narrowly to broadly ovoid-acuminate, ± strongly inflated, 8–20 × 4–11 mm, thinly papery, glabrous or exceptionally puberulent; beak triangular-acuminate, (3–)4–11 mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | (15 or)16–21. |
13–20. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus lentiginosus var. lentiginosus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. toyabensis |
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Phenology | Flowering May–early Jul. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Often on volcanic soils, on basalt, with sagebrush and bunchgrass, in ponderosa pine and western juniper communities. | Dry, stony hillsides with sagebrush, open, treeless crests within timber belt, rarely above timber belt, on cool, loamy soils among aspens, on igneous bedrock. |
Elevation | 200–1500 m. (700–4900 ft.) | (1800–)2400–3500 m. ((5900–)7900–11500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; NV; OR; WA; BC |
NV |
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.) |
Usually a montane plant of central and west-central Nevada, var. toyabensis sometimes descends into the foothills as low as 1830 m, where it enters the habitat of, and apparently grades into, var. chartaceus, a form that differs typically in its leathery or at least much more stiffly papery fruit (R. C. Barneby 1964). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. lentiginosus var. carinatus | |
Name authority | unknown | Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 106, plate 3, figs. 1–4. (1945) |
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