Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. mokiacensis |
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Fish Slough milk vetch |
mokiak milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, to 100 cm. | Plants perennial, 20–60 cm, herbage green or subglabrescent. |
Stems | prostrate. |
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Leaves | 2–5 cm; leaflets 3 or 5, blades linear-oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, terminal leaflet 14–30 mm, apex obtuse or subacute. |
3–10(–13) cm; leaflets (7 or)9–17(–21), blades broadly obovate-obcordate, lanceolate, elliptic, or suborbiculate-obcordate, 5–13(–19) mm, apex emarginate or retuse to truncate, adaxial surface glabrous. |
Racemes | shortly 5–12-flowered, short and compact in fruit; axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit. |
loosely 12–20-flowered; axis elongating, 3.5–18(–22) cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 2–5.5 cm. |
4–11(–14) cm. |
Flowers | 13 mm; calyx 7 mm, tube 4.5 mm, lobes 2.5 mm; corolla purple. |
(10–)14–18(–19) mm; calyx 5–8(–9.2) mm, tube (3.5–)4–6.5 mm, lobes 1–2(–2.7) mm; corolla pink- to red-purple, usually with pale or white wing tips. |
Legumes | mottled, ovoid-acuminate, moderately inflated, 20–24 × 8–12 mm, stiffly papery, strigulose; beak incurved, 4.5–7 mm, bilocular. |
dehiscent on plant, usually ascending-erect to ascending, rarely spreading, green becoming stramineous, usually ± straight to incurved, rarely decurved, oblong-ellipsoid, not or scarcely inflated, slightly turgid, 14–28(–32) × 4.5–6.5 mm, ± bilocular, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous or minutely pubescent; beak 3–4 mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | 18. |
(22–)25–36. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. mokiacensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Saline seep, moist at least in springtime, growing with Ivesia, Juncus, and other herbs. | Limestone on outcrops and gravel, on basaltic or granitic gravel and/or outcrops, with Hymenoclea, bursage, Joshua tree, Larrea, and Ferocactus. |
Elevation | 1200–1300 m. (3900–4300 ft.) | 700–1800 m. (2300–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA |
AZ; NV; UT |
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.) |
The placement of var. mokiacensis has challenged generations of botanists. R. C. Barneby (1945) regarded var. mokiacensis as part of the lentiginosus complex but later (Barneby 1964) recognized it as a species within sect. Preussiani. In Washington County in Utah, var. mokiacensis has been consistently confused with var. palans. S. L. Welsh (2007) extensively discussed problems revolving around interpretation and distinction of var. mokiacensis. J. A. Alexander (2005) considered the taxon to be best recognized at the species level, as A. mokiacensis, the persistent fruit being otherwise unknown in A. lentiginosus. Alexander also presented a key to similar taxa and to minor variants within A. mokiacensis. As recognized here, the variety is found in Washington County in southwestern Utah, northwestern Mohave County in Arizona, and eastern Clark County in Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. mokiacensis, A. lentiginosus var. ursinus | |
Name authority | Barneby: Brittonia 29: 378, fig. 2. (1977) | (A. Gray) M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 126. (1923) |
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