Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi |
Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
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Cory's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Davis Mountains locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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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. |
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Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi |
Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
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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 |
TX |
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 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. |
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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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