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Cooper's weedy milkvetch, timber milk-vetch, weedy milk-vetch

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Baker's weedy milkvetch, timber milkvetch

Herbage

strigulose, hairs basifixed.

strigulose-pilosulous, hairs basifixed.

Stems

10–35 cm.

(1–)2–20(–24) 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.

(2–)4–20 cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–19(or 21), blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic to broadly oblong or oval-elliptic, (3–)5–30(–42) mm, apex mostly acute, surfaces glabrous or glabrescent adaxially.

Racemes

loosely (3–)6–16(–24)-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2.5–14 cm in fruit.

3–15(–20)-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5—10 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 (2.8–)3.4–5.2 mm, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes (0.8–)1–1.2 mm;

corolla whitish or suffused or lined with purple;

banner (5.9–)6.5–9.5(–10.2) mm;

keel 6.1–8.4 mm.

Legumes

linear-oblong, 13–18(–21) × 2–2.8(–3.2) mm, glabrous or strigulose.

oblanceoloid, (12–)15–25 × (1.2–)2.3–4 mm, strigulose.

Seeds

7–10.

13–19.

2n

= 22.

= 22.

Astragalus miser var. serotinus

Astragalus miser var. oblongifolius

Phenology Flowering May–Aug. Flowering late May–Aug.
Habitat Banks, flats, rocky or grassy slopes, glades in pine forests. Sagebrush, oak, aspen, and spruce-fir or pine communities.
Elevation 200–2000 m. (700–6600 ft.) 1600–3500 m. (5200–11500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; MT; WA; AB; BC
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from FNA
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; UT; WY
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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 oblongifolius occurs in the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, westward across the Colorado Basin to eastern Nevada, montane Utah, central Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico.

Variety oblongifolius forms extensive carpets in the forests of Colorado and Utah, where it is the only representative of the species. The New Mexico record likely represents a recent introduction (K. D. Heil and S. L. O’Kane 2007).

(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. hylophilus, A. miser var. miser, A. miser var. oblongifolius, A. miser var. praeteritus, A. miser var. tenuifolius
A. miser var. crispatus, A. miser var. decumbens, A. miser var. hylophilus, A. miser var. miser, A. miser var. praeteritus, A. miser var. serotinus, A. miser var. tenuifolius
Synonyms A. serotinus Homalobus oblongifolius
Name authority (A. Gray) Barneby: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 55: 481. (1956) (Rydberg) Cronquist: Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 18. (1953)
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