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Lackschewitz's milkvetch

Leaflets

(13 or)15–23 distally, blade surfaces sparsely pubes-cent.

Racemes

(2 or)3–5-flowered.

Legumes

3-sided compressed, 8.5–11.2 mm, gradually attenuated to a persistent style.

Astragalus molybdenus var. lackschewitzii

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Alpine tundra.
Elevation 2200–2500 m. (7200–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
MT
Discussion

Variety lackschewitzii is based on rather tenuous characteristics of leaflet pubescence and fruit compression, made significant by the geographic isolation of the populations from the other two varieties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Minerales > Astragalus molybdenus
Sibling taxa
A. molybdenus var. molybdenus, A. molybdenus var. shultziorum
Synonyms A. lackschewitzii
Name authority (Lavin & Marriott) S. L. Welsh: N. Amer. Sp. Astragalus, 51. (2007)
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