Astragalus mollissimus var. thompsoniae |
Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei |
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Thompson's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Earle's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants acaulescent, 6–45 cm, from caudex. | Plants subacaulescent or shortly caulescent. |
Stems | mostly obscured by stipules. |
to 10(–16) cm. |
Leaves | 2–28 cm; stipules 4–13 mm; leaflets 15–35, blades obovate to suborbiculate or elliptic, 2–18 mm. |
8–32 cm; stipules 5–15 mm; leaflets 19–35, blades oblanceolate, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-obovate, (5–)10–30(–45) mm. |
Racemes | 7–25-flowered; axis 1.5–18 cm in fruit. |
15–36-flowered; axis elongating, 4–15 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 2.5–24 cm. |
(5–)8–17 cm. |
Flowers | calyx 11–15.5 mm, tube 7.7–13 mm, lobes 2–4.2 mm; corolla pink-purple; banner 18–25 mm; keel 15–18.5(–20.5) mm. |
calyx (8.5–)8.8–10.5 mm, tube (4.5–)5–7 × 0.8–3(–3.2) mm, lobes 2.4–4 mm; corolla pink-purple or yellowish tipped and suffused or margined with dull purple; banner 12–17.5 mm; keel 9–13 mm. |
Legumes | curved, ovoid, turgid, 11–23 × 6–11 mm, densely villous-tomentose; beak unilocular. |
± incurved, abruptly contracted distally, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 9–14 × 4–6.5(–9) mm, usually sparsely villous-tomentulose or loosely strigulose, rarely glabrate or glabrous, hairs ascending and almost straight, or subappressed and curly, less than 1 mm; beak bilocular. |
Seeds | 28–38. |
20–30. |
2n | = 22, 24. |
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Astragalus mollissimus var. thompsoniae |
Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun (Oct). | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Salt desert shrub, mixed desert shrub, grasslands, and pinyon-juniper communities, usually on sandy substrates. | Dry hills and grassy plains, on volcanic and calcareous soils. |
Elevation | (700–)1100–2400 m. ((2300–)3600–7900 ft.) | 1100–1800 m. (3600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; NM; NV; UT |
NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua) |
Discussion | Variety thompsoniae is transitional with var. matthewsii in northwestern New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Within the flora area, var. earlei is a plant common in the trans-Pecos region of Texas and southeastern 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. thompsoniae | A. earlei |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 747. (1964) — (as thompsonae) | (Greene ex Rydberg) Tidestrom: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48: 40. (1935) |
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