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Astragalus misellus var. pauper

Astragalus sect. Miselli
Photo is of parent taxon

ellensburg milkvetch, Pauper milk-vetch
Habit Plants 2.5–15 cm. Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex superficial or subterranean.
Stems

several to many.
Leaves

2.5–7 cm;

leaflets relatively distant and scattered, (7–)11 or 13, blade surfaces strigulose adaxially.

odd-pinnate, usually subsessile to petiolate, rarely sessile;

leaflets (3–)9–27(–37).
Racemes

loosely or densely flowered, flowers usually declined, sometimes ascending.
Corollas

white, greenish white, ochroleucous, yellowish, or pink-purple, banner recurved through 45–90°, keel apex obtuse to sharply acute.
Calyx

tubes campanulate.
Legumes

ultimately deciduous, stipitate or subsessile, usually pendulous, sometimes declined or spreading, straight or incurved, linear, lanceoloid, oblong, or narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided, ± bilocular.
Seeds

(6–)8–30.
Hairs

basifixed.
Stipules

distinct.

Astragalus misellus var. pauper

Astragalus sect. Miselli
Phenology Flowering Apr–early Jun.
Habitat Mostly ridges and upper slopes, sometimes middle and lower slopes, sagebrush scablands.
Elevation 150–1400 m. (500–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
WA
[BONAP county map]
w United States; Mexico
Discussion

Long known from only one or two collections, var. pauper occurs primarily along the western margin of the Columbia Basin province from Douglas to Klickitat counties.

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

Species 13 (10 in the flora).

Section Miselli comprises 13 species distributed in the western United States from the Sierra Nevada and Cascade and Coast ranges eastward to the Rocky Mountains, and in Coahuila and the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Miselli > Astragalus misellus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Sibling taxa
A. misellus var. misellus
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms Tium
Name authority Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 458. (1964) (Rydberg) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 438. (1964)
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