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Astragalus lentiginosus var. sierrae
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Big Bear Valley milk vetch, San Bernardino Mountains milkvetch, Sierra milkvetch
Habit Plants perennial, 10–30 cm, herbage green or greenish.
Leaves

2–5 cm;

leaflets 15–21, blades obovate or broadly oblanceolate, 3–8 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.
Racemes

(5–)7–15-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.5–3 cm in fruit.
Peduncles

(0.7–)1–3 cm.
Flowers

10.4–13(–14.5) mm;

calyx 5–6(–6.6) mm, tube 4.3–4.8(–5.2) mm, lobes 0.5–1.4 mm;

corolla whitish or with pink tinge.
Legumes

mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 15–22 × 8–15 mm, papery, strigulose;

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

17–24.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. sierrae
Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat Meadows, pine forests.
Elevation 1800–2200(–2600) m. (5900–7200(–8500) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety sierrae is restricted to the eastern margin of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County, where it is local and common.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa 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. semotus, A. lentiginosus var. sesquimetralis, 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 M. E. Jones: Rev. N.-Amer. Astragalus, 124. (1923)
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