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Mogollon woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed

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Davis Mountains locoweed, woolly locoweed

Habit Plants acaulescent, usually dwarf. Plants acaulescent or subacaulescent.
Stems

reduced to thick crowns, closely invested with stipules.

reduced to crowns.

Leaves

(4–)6–16 cm;

stipules 5–12 mm;

leaflets (9–)13–23, blades broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–13 mm.

5–15 cm;

leaflets 15–19(or 21), blades ovate, obovate, or broadly elliptic, 4–15(–20) mm.

Racemes

densely 12–32-flowered;

axis 1.5–6 cm in fruit.

10–45-flowered;

axis 3–10 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

scapiform, 4–10 cm.

3.5–11 cm.

Flowers

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.

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

± 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.

ovoid-acuminate to lanceolate-ellipsoid, usually solid, rarely slightly turgid, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, villous-hirsute, hairs 1+ mm;

beak bilocular.

Seeds

19–28.

12–16.

Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus

Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Stony flats and hilltops, on pebbly, volcanic soils of open ponderosa pine forests, on limestone substrates, rocky knolls in pinyon-juniper belt. Open gravelly hillsides and rocky stream beds, on volcanic soils.
Elevation 1800–2300 m. (5900–7500 ft.) 1500–2000 m. (4900–6600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
TX
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

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.)

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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Mollissimi > Astragalus mollissimus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Mollissimi > Astragalus mollissimus
Sibling taxa
A. mollissimus var. bigelovii, A. mollissimus var. coryi, A. mollissimus var. earlei, A. mollissimus var. marcidus, A. mollissimus var. matthewsii, A. mollissimus var. mollissimus, A. mollissimus var. thompsoniae
A. mollissimus var. bigelovii, A. mollissimus var. coryi, A. mollissimus var. earlei, A. mollissimus var. matthewsii, A. mollissimus var. mogollonicus, A. mollissimus var. mollissimus, A. mollissimus var. thompsoniae
Synonyms A. mogollonicus, A. bigelovii var. mogollonicus A. marcidus, A. bigelovii var. marcidus
Name authority (Greene) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 745. (1964) (Greene ex Rydberg) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 743. (1964)
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