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freckled milkvetch, White Mountains milk vetch

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Fish Slough milk vetch

Habit Plants perennial, 5–10(–20) cm, herbage subappressed-strigulose. Plants perennial, to 100 cm.
Stems

prostrate.

Leaves

4–9 cm;

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

2–5 cm;

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

Racemes

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

axis 1–3 cm in fruit.

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

axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

0.6–1.5 cm.

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.

13 mm;

calyx 7 mm, tube 4.5 mm, lobes 2.5 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, ovoid-acuminate, moderately inflated, 20–24 × 8–12 mm, stiffly papery, strigulose;

beak incurved, 4.5–7 mm, bilocular.

Seeds

13–15.

18.

2n

= 22.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. semotus

Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat Among sagebrush, with bristle­cone pine. Saline seep, moist at least in springtime, growing with Ivesia, Juncus, and other herbs.
Elevation 2100–3500 m. (6900–11500 ft.) 1200–1300 m. (3900–4300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
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 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.)

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. 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
Name authority Jepson: Fl. Calif. 2: 357. (1936) Barneby: Brittonia 29: 378, fig. 2. (1977)
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