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Fish Slough milk vetch

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Kennedy's freckled milkvetch, Kennedy's milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, to 100 cm. Plants biennial or perennial (short-lived), (10–)15–40(–50) cm; herbage villosulous.
Stems

prostrate.

decumbent and ascending.

Leaves

2–5 cm;

leaflets 3 or 5, blades linear-oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, terminal leaflet 14–30 mm, apex obtuse or subacute.

4.5–12(–15) cm;

leaflets (9–)15–21(or 23), blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, (5–)7–20 mm, apex obtuse, emarginate, or retuse.

Racemes

shortly 5–12-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit.

loosely (10–)15–35-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (3.5–)5–12 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

2–5.5 cm.

(3–)4.5–7.5 cm.

Flowers

13 mm;

calyx 7 mm, tube 4.5 mm, lobes 2.5 mm;

corolla purple.

(11.8–)12.5–17 mm;

calyx 6.1–8.8 mm, tube 4.1–5.7 mm, lobes 1.6–3.1 mm;

corolla bright pink.

Legumes

mottled, ovoid-acuminate, moderately inflated, 20–24 × 8–12 mm, stiffly papery, strigulose;

beak incurved, 4.5–7 mm, bilocular.

stramineous, usually narrowly ovoid-acuminate, more rarely plumply so, bladdery-inflated, (20–)25–30 × 9–15 mm, papery-membranous, usually lustrous, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent;

beak 5–9 mm, unilocular.

Seeds

18.

(24–)26–36.

2n

= 22.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis

Astragalus lentiginosus var. kennedyi

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Saline seep, moist at least in springtime, growing with Ivesia, Juncus, and other herbs. Alkaline dunes, sandy valleys, dry stony knolls, sometimes on volcanic gravel or cin­ders.
Elevation 1200–1300 m. (3900–4300 ft.) 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
NV
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety piscinensis is known from Fish Slough northwest of Bishop in Mono County. It is similar in habit to vars. multiracemosus and sesquimetralis.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Variety kennedyi is a locally abundant endemic of west-central Nevada, blending with var. fremontii in the south.

(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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Cystium kennedyi
Name authority Barneby: Brittonia 29: 378, fig. 2. (1977) (Rydberg) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 121. (1945)
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