Astragalus mollissimus var. thompsoniae |
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
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Thompson's woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
Mogollon woolly locoweed, woolly locoweed |
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Habit | Plants acaulescent, 6–45 cm, from caudex. | Plants acaulescent, usually dwarf. |
Stems | mostly obscured by stipules. |
reduced to thick crowns, closely invested with stipules. |
Leaves | 2–28 cm; stipules 4–13 mm; leaflets 15–35, blades obovate to suborbiculate or elliptic, 2–18 mm. |
(4–)6–16 cm; stipules 5–12 mm; leaflets (9–)13–23, blades broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–13 mm. |
Racemes | 7–25-flowered; axis 1.5–18 cm in fruit. |
densely 12–32-flowered; axis 1.5–6 cm in fruit. |
Peduncles | 2.5–24 cm. |
scapiform, 4–10 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 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 | curved, ovoid, turgid, 11–23 × 6–11 mm, densely villous-tomentose; beak unilocular. |
± 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 | 28–38. |
19–28. |
Astragalus mollissimus var. thompsoniae |
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun (Oct). | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Salt desert shrub, mixed desert shrub, grasslands, and pinyon-juniper communities, usually on sandy substrates. | Stony flats and hilltops, on pebbly, volcanic soils of open ponderosa pine forests, on limestone substrates, rocky knolls in pinyon-juniper belt. |
Elevation | (700–)1100–2400 m. ((2300–)3600–7900 ft.) | 1800–2300 m. (5900–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; NM; NV; UT |
AZ; NM |
Discussion | Variety thompsoniae is transitional with var. matthewsii in 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. thompsoniae | A. mogollonicus, A. bigelovii var. mogollonicus |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 747. (1964) — (as thompsonae) | (Greene) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 745. (1964) |
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