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woodlands weedy milkvetch, woody milkvetch

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timber milk-vetch, weedy milk-vetch

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.

Astragalus miser var. hylophilus

Astragalus miser var. miser

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
from FNA
ID; MT; SD; WY
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from FNA
ID; MT; WA; AB; BC
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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 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.
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. decumbens, A. miser var. hylophilus, A. miser var. oblongifolius, A. miser var. praeteritus, A. miser var. serotinus, A. miser var. tenuifolius
Synonyms Homalobus hylophilus A. strigosus
Name authority (Rydberg) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 482. (1956) unknown
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