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freckled milkvetch, White Mountains milk vetch

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freckled milkvetch, Mount San Antonio milkvetch, San Antonio milk vetch

Habit Plants perennial, 5–10(–20) cm, herbage subappressed-strigulose. Plants perennial, 7–30 cm, herbage cinereous or silvery-canescent.
Leaves

4–9 cm;

leaflets (13–)17–27, distant, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oval, or oblong-elliptic, 2–9 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

3–8 cm;

leaflets 11–19(or 21), blades obovate or elliptic, 2.5–11 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

Racemes

6–10-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–3 cm in fruit.

10–15-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.5–4(–5) cm in fruit.

Peduncles

0.6–1.5 cm.

(1–)2–5.5 cm.

Flowers

10.4–12 mm;

calyx 5.2–7.3 mm, tube 3.6–5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.6 mm;

corolla whitish.

9–10.5 mm;

calyx 4.2–5.5 mm, tube 3.2–4 mm, lobes 0.8–1.4 mm;

corolla purple.

Legumes

mottled, ovoid-acuminate, bladdery-inflated, 11–20(–23) × 6–12 mm, papery, sparsely strigulose;

beak incurved, deltoid, 4–7 mm, unilocular.

mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 14–22(–30) × 10–16(–18) mm, papery, strigulose;

beak erect, triangular, 3–6 mm, unilocular.

Seeds

13–15.

20–26.

2n

= 22.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. semotus

Astragalus lentiginosus var. antonius

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering late Apr–Jul.
Habitat Among sagebrush, with bristle­cone pine. Ponderosa pine forests.
Elevation 2100–3500 m. (6900–11500 ft.) 1500–2600 m. (4900–8500 ft.)
Distribution
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CA; NV
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CA
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Discussion

Variety semotus, similar to var. ineptus, occurs in the Inyo and White mountains in Inyo and Mono counties, California, and Esmeralda County, Nevada.

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

Variety antonius, from the eastern end of the San Gabriel Mountains in eastern Los Angeles and adjacent San Bernardino counties, is the homologue of var. sierrae, from which it differs by its much denser pubescence and mostly flat leaflets (D. Isely 1998).

(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. pohlii, A. lentiginosus var. salinus, A. lentiginosus var. scorpionis, 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. 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. 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
Name authority Jepson: Fl. Calif. 2: 357. (1936) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 100, plate 2, figs. 7–9. (1945)
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