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Cory's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed

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Mogollon woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed

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

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

reduced to thick crowns, closely invested with stipules.

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.

(4–)6–16 cm;

stipules 5–12 mm;

leaflets (9–)13–23, blades broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–13 mm.

Racemes

densely 15–45-flowered;

axis 3.5–9 cm in fruit.

densely 12–32-flowered;

axis 1.5–6 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

8–21 cm.

scapiform, 4–10 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 10–15.3 mm, tube 6.6–8.5 × 3.2–5 mm, lobes 3.3–6.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner 16–21.5 mm;

keel 12.5–14.5 mm.

Legumes

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

beak unilocular.

± straight to gently incurved, narrowly ovoid or lunately ellipsoid, 9–13 × 4.5–6 mm, densely villous-tomentose, hairs to 1.6–2.6 mm;

beak bilocular.

Seeds

19–28.

Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi

Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus

Phenology Flowering Mar–May. Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Calcareous clay flats and depressions on rolling plains. Stony flats and hilltops, on pebbly, volcanic soils of open ponderosa pine forests, on limestone substrates, rocky knolls in pinyon-juniper belt.
Elevation 500–1000 m. (1600–3300 ft.) 1800–2300 m. (5900–7500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX
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from FNA
AZ; NM
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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.)

D. Isely (1998) viewed var. mogollonicus as a reduced phase of var. bigelovii, but var. mogollonicus is distinguished by its acaulescent growth habit and scapiform peduncles. It occurs from the Kaibab Plateau south of the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the southeast along the Mogollon Escarpment to western New Mexico.

(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. marcidus, A. mollissimus var. matthewsii, A. mollissimus var. mollissimus, A. mollissimus var. thompsoniae
Synonyms A. argillophilus A. mogollonicus, A. bigelovii var. mogollonicus
Name authority Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 50: 21. (1937) (Greene) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 745. (1964)
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