Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
Astragalus miser var. miser |
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woodlands weedy milkvetch, woody milkvetch |
timber milk-vetch, weedy milk-vetch |
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Herbage | strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed. |
strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed, silvery or cinereous. |
Stems | 1–15 cm. |
(5–)8–32 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. |
4–14(–17) cm; leaflets 9–19, blades linear-elliptic to narrowly linear, 3–26(–30) mm, apex acute, surfaces pubescent. |
Racemes | (3–)6–16-flowered; axis (1–)1.5–7(–7.5) cm in fruit. |
loosely (5–)7–19-flowered; axis (2–)4–12 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 (4.2–)4.6–6 mm, tube 2.6–4.2 mm, lobes (1.4–)1.8–2.6 mm; corolla lilac or pink-purple; banner (9.5–)9.8–12 mm; keel (7.8–)8.6–10.7 mm. |
Legumes | linear, linear-ellipsoid, or -oblanceoloid, (15–)18–25 × 2.5–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with few, scattered hairs. |
linear-oblong or linear-ellipsoid, 15–22(–25) × (2.5–)3–4 mm, densely strigulose. |
Seeds | (6 or)7–11. |
8–12(–17). |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
Astragalus miser var. miser |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering late Apr–early Aug. |
Habitat | Meadows, banks, open parklands with lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine. | Ridges, flats, meadows, grasslands, shrublands, open forests. |
Elevation | 900–2900 m. (3000–9500 ft.) | 300–1400 m. (1000–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; SD; WY |
ID; MT; WA; AB; BC |
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 miser is known from southern British Columbia and extreme southwestern Alberta across northeastern Washington to western Montana. (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. strigosus |
Name authority | (Rydberg) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 482. (1956) | unknown |
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