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Cory's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed

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Davis Mountains locoweed, woolly locoweed

Habit Plants usually shortly caulescent, sometimes subacaulescent. Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent.
Stems

2–25 cm, hairs spirally twisted, to 1.6–2.8 mm.

reduced to crowns.

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.

5–15 cm;

leaflets 15–19(or 21), blades ovate, obovate, or broadly elliptic, 4–15(–20) mm.

Racemes

densely 15–45-flowered;

axis 3.5–9 cm in fruit.

10–45-flowered;

axis 3–10 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

8–21 cm.

3.5–11 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 6.8–9.9 mm, tube 5.2–6.4 × 2.8–3.5 mm, lobes 1.6–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner 11.8–16.3;

keel 10.3–12.5 mm.

Legumes

narrowly ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 10–17 × 4.5–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous (distally);

beak unilocular.

ovoid-acuminate to lanceolate-ellipsoid, usually solid, rarely slightly turgid, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, villous-hirsute, hairs 1+ mm;

beak bilocular.

Seeds

12–16.

Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi

Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus

Phenology Flowering Mar–May. Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Calcareous clay flats and depressions on rolling plains. Open gravelly hillsides and rocky stream beds, on volcanic soils.
Elevation 500–1000 m. (1600–3300 ft.) 1500–2000 m. (4900–6600 ft.)
Distribution
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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 marcidus is known from Jeff Davis and Presidio counties of the trans-Pecos region.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Mollissimi > Astragalus mollissimus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Mollissimi > Astragalus mollissimus
Sibling taxa
A. mollissimus var. bigelovii, A. mollissimus var. earlei, A. mollissimus var. marcidus, A. mollissimus var. matthewsii, A. mollissimus var. mogollonicus, A. mollissimus var. mollissimus, A. mollissimus var. thompsoniae
A. mollissimus var. bigelovii, A. mollissimus var. coryi, A. mollissimus var. earlei, A. mollissimus var. matthewsii, A. mollissimus var. mogollonicus, A. mollissimus var. mollissimus, A. mollissimus var. thompsoniae
Synonyms A. argillophilus A. marcidus, A. bigelovii var. marcidus
Name authority Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 50: 21. (1937) (Greene ex Rydberg) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 743. (1964)
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