Astragalus miser var. serotinus |
Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
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Cooper's weedy milkvetch, timber milk-vetch, weedy milk-vetch |
woodlands weedy milkvetch, woody milkvetch |
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Herbage | strigulose, hairs basifixed. |
strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed. |
Stems | 10–35 cm. |
1–15 cm. |
Leaves | 4–15(–17.5) cm; leaflets (9 or)11–19(or 21), blades narrowly elliptic to linear or linear-oblanceolate, (2–)4–30(–40) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
(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. |
Racemes | loosely (3–)6–16(–24)-flowered; axis (1.5–)2.5–14 cm in fruit. |
(3–)6–16-flowered; axis (1–)1.5–7(–7.5) cm in fruit. |
Flowers | calyx 3–4.2 mm, tube 2.3–3.1 mm, lobes 0.7–1.3 mm; corolla whitish or suffused or veined purple, keel pinkish lilac; banner 7–9.5 mm; keel 6–7.8(–8.4) mm. |
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. |
Legumes | linear-oblong, 13–18(–21) × 2–2.8(–3.2) mm, glabrous or strigulose. |
linear, linear-ellipsoid, or -oblanceoloid, (15–)18–25 × 2.5–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with few, scattered hairs. |
Seeds | 7–10. |
(6 or)7–11. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus miser var. serotinus |
Astragalus miser var. hylophilus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Banks, flats, rocky or grassy slopes, glades in pine forests. | Meadows, banks, open parklands with lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine. |
Elevation | 200–2000 m. (700–6600 ft.) | 900–2900 m. (3000–9500 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; WA; AB; BC |
ID; MT; SD; WY |
Discussion | Variety serotinus is known from the Columbia Basin in Washington, northward into British Columbia and Rocky Mountains of Alberta, and southward into northwestern Montana. D. Isely (1998) noted that var. serotinus is contiguous, and blends, with the purple-petaled var. miser. If origin is unknown, var. serotinus is often distinguished from var. hylophilus with difficulty. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. serotinus | Homalobus hylophilus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 481. (1956) | (Rydberg) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 482. (1956) |
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