Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
Astragalus miser var. crispatus |
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woodlands weedy milkvetch, woody milkvetch |
Jones' weedy milkvetch, timber milkvetch |
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Herbage | strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed. |
villosulous or villous and pilosulous, hairs obscurely malpighian, gray or silvery, mostly twisted and loose. |
Stems | 1–15 cm. |
2.5–15 cm. |
Leaves | (3–)4.5–19 cm; leaflets (9 or)11–21, blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, lanceolate, or lanceolate-oblong, (3–)5–26 mm, apex acute, obtuse, obtuse and apiculate, or, rarely, retuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
1.5–8 cm; leaflets (9 or)11–17, blades narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3–16(–20) mm, apex acute or shortly acuminate, surfaces pubescent; terminal leaflet decurrent or obscurely jointed. |
Racemes | (3–)6–16-flowered; axis (1–)1.5–7(–7.5) cm in fruit. |
9–17-flowered; axis 2–5.5 cm in fruit. |
Flowers | calyx (3.8–)4–5.6 mm, tube 2.6–3.5 mm, lobes (0.9–)1–2.3 mm; corolla whitish, sometimes purple-veined; banner (5.2–)6.5–13 mm; keel (7.1–)8–10(–11.4) mm. |
calyx 3.7–4.7 mm, tube 2.4–2.8 mm, lobes 1.1–2.4 mm; corolla whitish or ochroleucous, sometimes faintly lavender-tinged or -veined; banner 9.2–10.4 mm; keel 7.7–8.3 mm. |
Legumes | linear, linear-ellipsoid, or -oblanceoloid, (15–)18–25 × 2.5–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with few, scattered hairs. |
linear-oblong, 14–17 × 2.5–3 mm, minutely villosulous, hairs twisted. |
Seeds | (6 or)7–11. |
6–13. |
Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
Astragalus miser var. crispatus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Meadows, banks, open parklands with lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine. | Pine woodlands, sagebrush flats. |
Elevation | 900–2900 m. (3000–9500 ft.) | 1200–1300 m. (3900–4300 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; SD; WY |
ID; MT |
Discussion | Variety hylophilus occurs in the Rocky Mountains of western Wyoming and western Montana (and immediately adjoining Idaho), and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Variety hylophilus is sympatric, in part, with vars. crispatus, miser, and tenuifolius. Its distinction may be preserved by ecological isolation; of the four varieties it is the most mesic, whereas the others are more xerophytic (D. Isely 1998). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety crispatus is among the most restricted of the varieties in the species, occurring only in the Bitterroot Mountains, in east-central Idaho and adjoining Montana. It is geographically peripheral to var. tenuifolius, and some plants intergrade. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Homalobus hylophilus | A. campestris var. crispatus |
Name authority | (Rydberg) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 482. (1956) | (M. E. Jones) Cronquist: Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 18. (1953) |
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