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Earle's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed

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

Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Dry hills and grassy plains, on volcanic and calcareous soils.
Elevation 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua)
[BONAP county map]
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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Mollissimi > Astragalus mollissimus
Sibling taxa
A. mollissimus var. bigelovii, A. mollissimus var. coryi, A. mollissimus var. marcidus, A. mollissimus var. matthewsii, A. mollissimus var. mogollonicus, A. mollissimus var. mollissimus, A. mollissimus var. thompsoniae
Synonyms A. earlei
Name authority (Greene ex Rydberg) Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48: 40. (1935)
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