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pohil's milkvetch, pohl's milkvetch

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freckled milkvetch, New Idria milk vetch

Habit Plants perennial, 7–20 cm. Plants perennial, (10–)15–40 cm.
Leaves

(4–)5–9 cm;

leaflets 11–17, blades broadly obovate-cuneate or suborbiculate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse or retuse to emarginate.

(2–)3–11 cm;

leaflets (7–)17–27(or 29), blades oval-obovate, obovate-cuneate, or broadly oblanceolate, (2–)3–15(–18) mm, apex truncate or emarginate.

Racemes

shortly and loosely 3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–3.5 cm in fruit.

7–20-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

1–4 cm.

(1.5–)3–6 cm.

Flowers

20–23 mm;

calyx 8.5–10.5 mm, tube 8–10 mm, lobes 2.4–3 mm;

corolla whitish tinged with violet.

(12–)14–19(–20) mm;

calyx (5–)6.2–11 mm, tube (4.2–)4.7–7.2 mm, lobes (0.5–)1.3–3.4 mm;

corolla brilliant or pale pink-purple.

Legumes

pale green or purple-speckled becoming stramineous or brownish, plumply ovoid, strongly inflated, 23–33 × 10–15 mm, ± bilocular, leathery or stiffly papery, minutely strigulose;

beak 5–15 mm, unilocular;

stipe 0.5–1.5 mm.

green, usually red-mottled, obliquely ovoid or lunately semi-ovoid, greatly or slightly inflated, 12–30 × 5-16 mm, semibilocular, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigulose, hairs usually white, rarely black;

beak 3–10 mm, unilocular.

Seeds

24–32.

21–30.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. pohlii

Astragalus lentiginosus var. idriensis

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Greasewood, shadscale, horse­brush, and big sagebrush communities, vegetated sand dunes. Dry, grassy hillsides, canyon floors and benches, on shale or sandstone outcrops, in arid grasslands with blue oak, with foothill pine, among sagebrush.
Elevation 1300–1700 m. (4300–5600 ft.) 300–2100 m. (1000–6900 ft.)
Distribution
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UT
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CA
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Discussion

Variety pohlii is restricted to the Rush and Skull valleys in Tooele County. The shortly stipitate fruit is unusual among varieties of Astragalus lentiginosus.

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

Variety idriensis occurs in and around the head of the San Joaquin Valley and in the South Coast ranges, where it is the only form of Astragalus lentiginosus with shortly racemose purple flowers that is native (R. C. Barneby 1964).

(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. piscinensis, A. lentiginosus var. platyphyllidius, 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. 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. 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. idriensis, A. tehachapiensis
Name authority S. L. Welsh & Barneby: Iselya 2: 1. (1981) M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 10: 63. (1902)
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