Astragalus lentiginosus var. vitreus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. stramineus |
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freckled milkvetch, glass freckled milkvetch |
freckled milkvetch, straw milkvetch |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 15–40 cm. | Plants perennial (short-lived), 12–40(–65) cm, herbage cinereous or green. |
Stems | glabrous or glabrate. |
ashy canescent or green. |
Leaves | 4.5–10 cm; leaflets (7–)13–19, blades obovate-cuneate or oblong-obovate, (5–)7–17(–21) mm, apex obtuse or truncate-emarginate. |
(2.5–)4–11(–13) cm; leaflets (9 or)11–15, blades broadly oblanceolate or obovate-cuneate, (3–)5–18 mm, apex openly notched. |
Racemes | loosely (10–)15–27-flowered, lax and open in fruit; axis 4–8.5 cm in fruit. |
loosely or remotely 15–25(–30)-flowered, lax and open in fruit; axis 5–18 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 4–9.5 cm. |
3.5–9 cm. |
Flowers | 13.2–17 mm; calyx 6.5–8 mm, tube 4.6–5.7 mm, lobes (1.5–)1.7–2.3 mm; corolla pink-purple or lavender with white wing tips. |
11–12 mm; calyx 5–6.6 mm, tube 3.8–4.5 mm, lobes 1.2–2.1 mm; corolla pale purple. |
Legumes | pale green and unmottled turning pallid, usually broadly ovoid, rarely lunately lanceoloid-acuminate, usually strongly inflated, rarely less so, 15–25 × (7–)9–15 mm, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, lustrous, glabrous; beak triangular, short, unilocular. |
greenish, usually mottled, becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid-acuminate, bladdery-inflated, (10–)17–26 × 10–16 mm, bilocular, somewhat stiffly papery, opaque, strigulose; beak (2–)3–7 mm, unilocular. |
Seeds | 21–31. |
20–26. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus lentiginosus var. vitreus |
Astragalus lentiginosus var. stramineus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Gullied badlands and desert flats, on sand or clay derived from sandstone or limestone, on volcanic gravel. | Mixed warm-desert shrub communities. |
Elevation | 800–1500(–2000) m. (2600–4900(–6600) ft.) | 900–1000 m. (3000–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; UT |
AZ; NV; UT |
Discussion | Variety vitreus is found in the valleys of the upper Virgin River and Kanab Creek, southward to the northern slope of the Kaibab Plateau, and Toroweap and House Rock valleys in eastern Washington and western Kane counties in Utah, and northern Mohave and northwestern Coconino counties in Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety stramineus is the only member of the species with moderate-sized, pale purple flowers known to occur in Washington County in Utah, and adjacent Arizona and Nevada; it is similar to the slightly smaller-flowered var. fremontii and to var. ambiguus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Cystium stramineum | |
Name authority | Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 119, plate 3, figs. 30–33. (1945) | (Rydberg) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 4: 122. (1945) |
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