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toyabe milkvetch

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freckled milkvetch, Kaibab Plateau milkvetch

Habit Plants perennial, 10–30 cm. Plants perennial, (10–)20–80 cm.
Stems

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

decumbent or weakly ascending, flexuous or zigzag in age, glabrous or glabrate.

Leaves

3–13(–16) cm;

leaflets (7–)15–25, blades oval-obovate, broadly oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, (2–)6–16(–21)mm, apex obtuse and apiculate, truncate, acute, or subacute.

5–15 cm;

leaflets 15–21(–25), blades broadly oblong-elliptic, ovate-oblong, or suborbiculate, 5–20(–25) mm, apex rounded, truncate, or retuse.

Racemes

7–18-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–2.5(–5) cm in fruit.

shortly (8–)10–25-flowered, compact in fruit;

axis little elongating, 1.5–4(–5) cm in fruit.

Peduncles

1.5–4.5(–6.5) cm.

(2–)3–10 cm.

Flowers

12.6–17 mm;

calyx (6.2–)6.7–10 mm, tube 5–6.5 mm, lobes (1.2–)1.6–3.5(–4) mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely whitish.

(12.5–)13.2–20 mm;

calyx 7.5–10.8 mm, tube (4.5–)5–7.5 mm, lobes (2.5–)3–5 mm;

corolla purple or pale pink-purple.

Legumes

usually mottled becoming stramineous, narrowly to broadly ovoid-acuminate, ± strongly inflated, 8–20 × 4–11 mm, thinly papery, glabrous or exceptionally puberulent;

beak triangular-acuminate, (3–)4–11 mm, unilocular.

mottled, obliquely ovoid or semi-ovoid, ± strongly inflated, 13–25(–30) × 6.5–14 mm, ± bilocular, stiffly papery, glabrous;

beak 5–8 mm, unilocular.

Seeds

13–20.

20–33.

Astragalus lentiginosus var. toyabensis

Astragalus lentiginosus var. oropedii

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Dry, stony hillsides with sagebrush, open, treeless crests within timber belt, rarely above timber belt, on cool, loamy soils among aspens, on igneous bedrock. Openings in ponderosa pine for­ests.
Elevation (1800–)2400–3500 m. ((5900–)7900–11500 ft.) 2100–2500 m. (6900–8200 ft.)
Distribution
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NV
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AZ
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Discussion

Usually a montane plant of central and west-central Nevada, var. toyabensis sometimes descends into the foothills as low as 1830 m, where it enters the habitat of, and apparently grades into, var. chartaceus, a form that differs typically in its leathery or at least much more stiffly papery fruit (R. C. Barneby 1964).

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

Variety oropedii is locally common but apparently confined to the Kaibab Plateau, especially the North Rim and upper levels of the northern wall of the Grand Canyon in Coconino County. Specimens with thin-textured, subdiaphanous fruits that occur within or near known localities of var. oropedii have been tentatively placed with var. vitreus.

(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. semotus, A. lentiginosus var. sesquimetralis, A. lentiginosus var. sierrae, A. lentiginosus var. stramineus, 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. 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 Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 106, plate 3, figs. 1–4. (1945) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 135. (1945)
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