Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus |
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Mogollon woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Davis Mountains locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; NM |
TX |
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. |
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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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