Astragalus lentiginosus var. trumbullensis |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. fremontii |
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freckled milkvetch, Mount Trumbull milkvetch |
Fremont's milk vetch, Frémont's freckled milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 30–45(–65) cm, herbage green or subglabrescent. | Plants annual, biennial, or perennial (short-lived), (4–)8–35(–40) cm. |
Leaves | 2–9.5(–10.5) cm; leaflets (7–)13–17, blades broadly obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 5–15 mm, apex retuse to round or subacute, adaxial surface usually strigose to strigulose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous. |
(3–)4–9(–12) cm; leaflets (9 or)11–19, blades ovate- or obovate-cuneate, broadly oblanceolate, or rhombic-elliptic, 5–19 mm, apex usually obtuse or emarginate, rarely subacute. |
Racemes | loosely 4–15(–17)-flowered; axis elongating, 3–9.5 cm in fruit. |
loosely (8–)10–30-flowered, lax and open in fruit; axis (2.5–)4–11(–16) cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 4.5–7.5 cm. |
2.5–8.5(–10) cm. |
Flowers | 13–17 mm; calyx 6.3–7.4 mm, tube 4.8–5.5 mm, lobes 1.7–2 mm; corolla pink- or red-purple, sometimes with pale or white wing tips. |
9.1–12(–12.4) mm; calyx (3.4–)3.8–6(–7.9) mm, tube (2.8–)3–4.5 mm, lobes (0.6–)0.9–2(–3.5) mm; corolla usually bright purple, rarely pink-lilac to pure white. |
Legumes | evidently persistent, stramineous or mottled, linear-oblong to oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, not or scarcely inflated, 17–32 × 4–5.5(–7.5) mm, ± bilocular, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigulose; beak 3–5 mm, unilocular; stipe 0.1–1 mm. |
pale green, often purple-freckled or purple-mottled, usually broadly and plumply ovoid-acuminate, rarely quite narrowly so, nearly always bladdery-inflated, 14–27(–36) × (5–)8–18 mm, ± bilocular, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, glabrous or sparsely strigulose-villosulous; beak (2–)3–7(–10) mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | 14–28. |
(17–)19–31. |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. trumbullensis |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. fremontii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr (Sep). | Flowering late Mar–Jul (Sep–Oct). |
Habitat | Sandstone outcrops and gravel, with Agave, Ephedra, Mortonia, Purshia, and other warm-desert shrubs. | Braided stream gravel in riparian communities, gravelly slopes in creosote bush, Joshua tree, juniper, pinyon-juniper, and Jeffrey pine communities. |
Elevation | 900–1800 m. (3000–5900 ft.) | 700–2500(–2800) m. (2300–8200(–9200) ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ |
AZ; CA; NV; UT |
Discussion | Variety trumbullensis is restricted to Mohave County. It is closely related to vars. mokiacensis and palans, weakly differentiated by a series of features that intergrade insensibly but taken in combination are more or less diagnostic (as is true for most members of the lentiginosus complex). J. A. Alexander (2005) provided statistical evidence that this variety is indistinguishable from var. mokiacensis (as Astragalus mokiacensis), and he considered the two synonymous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety fremontii is common from southeastern California across southern Nevada to southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona and may be very abundant when adequate moisture is available at an appropriate time. To the south and west, it grades into the larger-flowered var. variabilis; to the north in western Nevada, it grades into var. kennedyi. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. fremontii, A. fremontii subsp. eremicus | |
Name authority | S. L. Welsh & N. D. Atwood: Rhodora 103: 81, fig. 3. (2001) | (A. Gray) S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 66. (1871) |
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