Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi |
Astragalus mollissimus var. bigelovii |
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Cory's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Bigelow's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants usually shortly caulescent, sometimes subacaulescent. | Plants shortly caulescent, robust. |
Stems | 2–25 cm, hairs spirally twisted, to 1.6–2.8 mm. |
(0 or)3–17 cm. |
Leaves | (4–)6–20 cm; stipules (5–)7–15 mm; leaflets (11–)17–25(–29), blades usually obovate or oblong-oval, sometimes rhombic-obovate, 5–18 mm. |
9–26 cm; stipules 6–20 mm; leaflets (13–)19–27, blades ovate, obovate, oval, or broadly elliptic, 6–25 mm. |
Racemes | densely 15–45-flowered; axis 3.5–9 cm in fruit. |
somewhat densely (15–)20–45-flowered, flowers subcontiguous or interrupted proximally; axis (4–)5–11 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 8–21 cm. |
(5–)8–22 cm. |
Flowers | calyx 10.5–14 mm, tube 7–8.7 × 3–4 mm, lobes (3.3–)3.7–5.5 mm; corolla cream; banner (14.4–)15–20.3 mm; keel 12–17.4 mm. |
calyx 10.5–13.5 cm, tube (8–)8.3–10.3 × (3.2–)4–5.2 mm, lobes (1.7–)2.6–4.4 mm; corolla pink-purple; banner 17–22.5 mm; keel 13.5–18.5 mm. |
Legumes | narrowly ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 10–17 × 4.5–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous (distally); beak unilocular. |
gently incurved or ± straight, ovoid-acuminate or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, sometimes slightly turgid, 10–15 × (4–)4.5–8 mm, stiffly papery or leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, hairs to 1–1.6 mm; beak bilocular. |
Seeds | 20–31. |
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2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi |
Astragalus mollissimus var. bigelovii |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Calcareous clay flats and depressions on rolling plains. | Dry plains and foothills, in desert- or mesquite-grasslands, among junipers, on calcareous soils, sandy loams, basalt gravel, over-grazed and badly eroded cattle ranges. |
Elevation | 500–1000 m. (1600–3300 ft.) | 1200–1900(–2300) m. (3900–6200(–7500) ft.) |
Distribution |
TX |
AZ; NM; TX |
Discussion | Variety coryi is locally abundant on the northwestern Edwards Plateau in Crockett, Howard, Irion, Martin, Reagan, Schleicher, Sterling, and Upton counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety bigelovii is known from extreme western Texas to southeastern Arizona and in New Mexico as far north as Socorro County and the Plains of San Augustin in Catron County. D. Isely (1998) recognized var. bigelovii at the species level, and included with it vars. marcidus, matthewsii, and mogollonicus, primarily on the basis of the completely bilocular fruits. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. argillophilus | A. bigelovii |
Name authority | Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 50: 21. (1937) | (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 742. (1964) |
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