Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei |
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Earle's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants subacaulescent or shortly caulescent. |
Stems | to 10(–16) cm. |
Leaves | 8–32 cm; stipules 5–15 mm; leaflets 19–35, blades oblanceolate, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-obovate, (5–)10–30(–45) mm. |
Racemes | 15–36-flowered; axis elongating, 4–15 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | (5–)8–17 cm. |
Flowers | calyx (8.5–)8.8–10.5 mm, tube (4.5–)5–7 × 0.8–3(–3.2) mm, lobes 2.4–4 mm; corolla pink-purple or yellowish tipped and suffused or margined with dull purple; banner 12–17.5 mm; keel 9–13 mm. |
Legumes | ± incurved, abruptly contracted distally, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 9–14 × 4–6.5(–9) mm, usually sparsely villous-tomentulose or loosely strigulose, rarely glabrate or glabrous, hairs ascending and almost straight, or subappressed and curly, less than 1 mm; beak bilocular. |
Seeds | 20–30. |
2n | = 22, 24. |
Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Dry hills and grassy plains, on volcanic and calcareous soils. |
Elevation | 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua) |
Discussion | Within the flora area, var. earlei is a plant common in the trans-Pecos region of Texas and southeastern New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. earlei |
Name authority | (Greene ex Rydberg) Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48: 40. (1935) |
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