Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei |
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
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Earle's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Mogollon woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants subacaulescent or shortly caulescent. | Plants acaulescent, usually dwarf. |
Stems | to 10(–16) cm. |
reduced to thick crowns, closely invested with stipules. |
Leaves | 8–32 cm; stipules 5–15 mm; leaflets 19–35, blades oblanceolate, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-obovate, (5–)10–30(–45) mm. |
(4–)6–16 cm; stipules 5–12 mm; leaflets (9–)13–23, blades broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–13 mm. |
Racemes | 15–36-flowered; axis elongating, 4–15 cm in fruit. |
densely 12–32-flowered; axis 1.5–6 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | (5–)8–17 cm. |
scapiform, 4–10 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. |
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 | ± 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. |
± 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 | 20–30. |
19–28. |
2n | = 22, 24. |
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Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei |
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry hills and grassy plains, on volcanic and calcareous soils. | Stony flats and hilltops, on pebbly, volcanic soils of open ponderosa pine forests, on limestone substrates, rocky knolls in pinyon-juniper belt. |
Elevation | 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.) | 1800–2300 m. (5900–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua) |
AZ; NM |
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.) |
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. |
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Synonyms | A. earlei | A. mogollonicus, A. bigelovii var. mogollonicus |
Name authority | (Greene ex Rydberg) Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48: 40. (1935) | (Greene) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 745. (1964) |
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