Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii |
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
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Matthews woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Mogollon woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent. | Plants acaulescent, usually dwarf. |
Stems | to 1.5 cm, obscured by imbricate stipules. |
reduced to thick crowns, closely invested with stipules. |
Leaves | (3–)5–12 cm; stipules (3–)4–8 mm; leaflets 11–23, blades obovate, 3–12 mm. |
(4–)6–16 cm; stipules 5–12 mm; leaflets (9–)13–23, blades broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–13 mm. |
Racemes | (5–)7–12-flowered; axis (0.5–)1–4.5 cm in fruit, not or scarcely surpassing foliage. |
densely 12–32-flowered; axis 1.5–6 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | scapiform, (1.5–)2.5–8 cm. |
scapiform, 4–10 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 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 | gently or abruptly incurved distally, broadly ovoid, turgid, 12–18 × 7–13 mm, widest near obtuse or truncate base, densely villous-tomentose; 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 | 24–31. |
19–28. |
Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii |
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
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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. | Stony flats and hilltops, on pebbly, volcanic soils of open ponderosa pine forests, on limestone substrates, rocky knolls in pinyon-juniper belt. |
Elevation | 1900–2600 m. (6200–8500 ft.) | 1800–2300 m. (5900–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM |
AZ; NM |
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.) |
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. matthewsii, A. bigelovii var. matthewsii | A. mogollonicus, A. bigelovii var. mogollonicus |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 746. (1964) | (Greene) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 745. (1964) |
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