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freckled milkvetch, White Mountains milk vetch

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Kennedy's freckled milkvetch, Kennedy's milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, 5–10(–20) cm, herbage subappressed-strigulose. Plants biennial or perennial (short-lived), (10–)15–40(–50) cm; herbage villosulous.
Stems

decumbent and ascending.

Leaves

4–9 cm;

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

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

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

axis 1–3 cm in fruit.

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

axis (3.5–)5–12 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

0.6–1.5 cm.

(3–)4.5–7.5 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.

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

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

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

13–15.

(24–)26–36.

2n

= 22.

= 22.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. semotus

Astragalus lentiginosus var. kennedyi

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Among sagebrush, with bristle­cone pine. Alkaline dunes, sandy valleys, dry stony knolls, sometimes on volcanic gravel or cin­ders.
Elevation 2100–3500 m. (6900–11500 ft.) 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
NV
[BONAP county map]
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 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. 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. 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 Jepson: Fl. Calif. 2: 357. (1936) (Rydberg) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 121. (1945)
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