Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
Astragalus mollissimus var. bigelovii |
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Davis Mountains locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Bigelow's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent. | Plants shortly caulescent, robust. |
Stems | reduced to crowns. |
(0 or)3–17 cm. |
Leaves | 5–15 cm; leaflets 15–19(or 21), blades ovate, obovate, or broadly elliptic, 4–15(–20) mm. |
9–26 cm; stipules 6–20 mm; leaflets (13–)19–27, blades ovate, obovate, oval, or broadly elliptic, 6–25 mm. |
Racemes | 10–45-flowered; axis 3–10 cm in fruit. |
somewhat densely (15–)20–45-flowered, flowers subcontiguous or interrupted proximally; axis (4–)5–11 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 3.5–11 cm. |
(5–)8–22 cm. |
Flowers | 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. |
calyx 10.5–13.5 cm, tube (8–)8.3–10.3 × (3.2–)4–5.2 mm, lobes (1.7–)2.6–4.4 mm; corolla pink-purple; banner 17–22.5 mm; keel 13.5–18.5 mm. |
Legumes | ovoid-acuminate to lanceolate-ellipsoid, usually solid, rarely slightly turgid, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, villous-hirsute, hairs 1+ mm; beak bilocular. |
gently incurved or ± straight, ovoid-acuminate or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, sometimes slightly turgid, 10–15 × (4–)4.5–8 mm, stiffly papery or leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, hairs to 1–1.6 mm; beak bilocular. |
Seeds | 12–16. |
20–31. |
2n | = 22. |
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Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
Astragalus mollissimus var. bigelovii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Open gravelly hillsides and rocky stream beds, on volcanic soils. | Dry plains and foothills, in desert- or mesquite-grasslands, among junipers, on calcareous soils, sandy loams, basalt gravel, over-grazed and badly eroded cattle ranges. |
Elevation | 1500–2000 m. (4900–6600 ft.) | 1200–1900(–2300) m. (3900–6200(–7500) ft.) |
Distribution |
TX |
AZ; NM; TX |
Discussion | 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.) |
Variety bigelovii is known from extreme western Texas to southeastern Arizona and in New Mexico as far north as Socorro County and the Plains of San Augustin in Catron County. D. Isely (1998) recognized var. bigelovii at the species level, and included with it vars. marcidus, matthewsii, and mogollonicus, primarily on the basis of the completely bilocular fruits. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. marcidus, A. bigelovii var. marcidus | A. bigelovii |
Name authority | (Greene ex Rydberg) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 743. (1964) | (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 742. (1964) |
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