Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii |
Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
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Matthews woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Davis Mountains locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent. | Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent. |
Stems | to 1.5 cm, obscured by imbricate stipules. |
reduced to crowns. |
Leaves | (3–)5–12 cm; stipules (3–)4–8 mm; leaflets 11–23, blades obovate, 3–12 mm. |
5–15 cm; leaflets 15–19(or 21), blades ovate, obovate, or broadly elliptic, 4–15(–20) mm. |
Racemes | (5–)7–12-flowered; axis (0.5–)1–4.5 cm in fruit, not or scarcely surpassing foliage. |
10–45-flowered; axis 3–10 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | scapiform, (1.5–)2.5–8 cm. |
3.5–11 cm. |
Flowers | calyx 10–13 mm, tube 7–8.6 × 3.4–4.7 mm, lobes 2.4–5.2 mm; corolla pale purple; banner 18.5–22.5 mm; keel 14.2–18 mm. |
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. |
Legumes | gently or abruptly incurved distally, broadly ovoid, turgid, 12–18 × 7–13 mm, widest near obtuse or truncate base, densely villous-tomentose; beak bilocular. |
ovoid-acuminate to lanceolate-ellipsoid, usually solid, rarely slightly turgid, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, villous-hirsute, hairs 1+ mm; beak bilocular. |
Seeds | 24–31. |
12–16. |
Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii |
Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Open slopes and hilltops, in ponderosa pine forests, along canyons to juniper-pinyon belt, on light, sandy or gravelly, sedimentary, granitic, or volcanic soils. | Open gravelly hillsides and rocky stream beds, on volcanic soils. |
Elevation | 1900–2600 m. (6200–8500 ft.) | 1500–2000 m. (4900–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM |
TX |
Discussion | Variety matthewsii is scattered and uncommon in Apache County in eastern Arizona and from Santa Fe to McKinley counties in the mountains of north-central and northwestern New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | A. matthewsii, A. bigelovii var. matthewsii | A. marcidus, A. bigelovii var. marcidus |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 746. (1964) | (Greene ex Rydberg) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 743. (1964) |
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