Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
Astragalus miser var. praeteritus |
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woodlands weedy milkvetch, woody milkvetch |
Yellowstone milkvetch |
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Herbage | strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed. |
strigulose, hairs obscurely malpighian, silvery cinereous, ± straight. |
Stems | 1–15 cm. |
(1.5–)2.5–20 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. |
(1.5–2.5–9.5 cm; leaflets 7–13(–17), blades linear to linear-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 2–20 mm, apex attenuate to acute, surfaces pubescent; terminal leaflet confluent with rachis. |
Racemes | (3–)6–16-flowered; axis (1–)1.5–7(–7.5) cm in fruit. |
loosely (3–)5–12-flowered; axis (1–)1.5–7.5 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 (2.3–)2.8–3.9 mm, tube (1.7–)2.2–2.9 mm, lobes 0.6–1.4 mm; corolla whitish, ochroleucous, or stramineous, sometimes brownish-veined, keel apex maculate; banner 6.6–8.6 mm; keel 6.2–8.3(–8.8) mm. |
Legumes | linear, linear-ellipsoid, or -oblanceoloid, (15–)18–25 × 2.5–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with few, scattered hairs. |
linear or linear-oblanceoloid, 11–20 × (2–)2.5–3.4 mm, strigulose. |
Seeds | (6 or)7–11. |
7–11. |
Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
Astragalus miser var. praeteritus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Meadows, banks, open parklands with lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine. | Banks, hillsides, gravelly ridges, in sagebrush upward into lodgepole pine forest. |
Elevation | 900–2900 m. (3000–9500 ft.) | 2200–2900 m. (7200–9500 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; SD; WY |
ID; MT; WY |
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 praeteritus occurs in southwestern Montana on the upper forks of the Missouri River to adjoining east-central Idaho, to Yellowstone Park and Grand Tetons in northwestern Wyoming. D. Isely (1998) stated that var. praeteritus represents the more northern aspects of an expanded var. tenuifolius, based on the presence of malpighian pubescence, and he synonymized the two under the latter name. He was unsuccessful in correlating pubescence with geography. It is probable that the two varieties are best combined, but there is a tendency for plants of var. praeteritus to have broader leaflets. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Homalobus hylophilus | |
Name authority | (Rydberg) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 482. (1956) | Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 483. (1956) |
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