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woodlands weedy milkvetch, woody milkvetch

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prostrate milkvetch, reclining weedy milkvetch

Herbage

strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed.

strigulose, hairs obscurely malpighian, silvery-silky, ± straight.

Stems

1–15 cm.

1–15(–22) 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.

1.5–9(–12) cm;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(or 17), blades narrowly elliptic to oval-lanceolate, leaflets subtending racemes more broadly elliptic or oblanceolate, (2–)4–16(–20) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces pubescent;

terminal leaflet decurrent or jointed.

Racemes

(3–)6–16-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–7(–7.5) cm in fruit.

(4–)7–17-flowered;

axis 1–3(–4) 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 2.8–4.3 mm, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes 0.9–1.9 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, purplish, bluish, or dull purple, sometimes pallid or whitish, except maculate keel;

banner 6.9–9.6 mm;

keel 6.2–7.8 mm.

Legumes

linear, linear-ellipsoid, or -oblanceoloid, (15–)18–25 × 2.5–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with few, scattered hairs.

linear-oblong or -oblanceoloid, (12–)14–21 × 2.2–3.3 mm.

Seeds

(6 or)7–11.

12–18.

Astragalus miser var. hylophilus

Astragalus miser var. decumbens

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Meadows, banks, open park­lands with lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine. Banks, hillsides, bluffs, ridge crests, with sagebrush, with limber pine and juniper.
Elevation 900–2900 m. (3000–9500 ft.) 1100–2600 m. (3600–8500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; MT; SD; WY
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from FNA
ID; MT; WY
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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 decumbens occurs from southern Montana on the Yellowstone River, southward (mostly eastward of the Continental Divide except on upper Green River) to central Wyoming.

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

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Genistoidei > Astragalus miser Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Genistoidei > Astragalus miser
Sibling taxa
A. miser var. crispatus, A. miser var. decumbens, A. miser var. miser, A. miser var. oblongifolius, A. miser var. praeteritus, A. miser var. serotinus, A. miser var. tenuifolius
A. miser var. crispatus, A. miser var. hylophilus, A. miser var. miser, A. miser var. oblongifolius, A. miser var. praeteritus, A. miser var. serotinus, A. miser var. tenuifolius
Synonyms Homalobus hylophilus Homalobus decumbens
Name authority (Rydberg) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 482. (1956) (Nuttall) Cronquist: Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 18. (1953)
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