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loredo milkvetch, turkeypeas

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Montezuma milkvetch, turkeypeas

Habit Plants hirsutulous, hairs 0.4–0.8 mm. Plants sparsely pilosulous, hairs to 0.7(–0.8) mm.
Stems

2–30 cm.

3–25(–39) cm.

Leaves

1.5–4.5(–5) cm;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades narrowly cuneate to oblong, oval, or oblong-cuneate, apex retuse or deeply emarginate.

1.5–4.5(–6.5) cm;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(or 17), blades proximally obovate, oblong, or obcordate, distally oblanceolate, elliptic, or linear-oblong, apex proximally retuse or emarginate, distally obtuse to subacute, terminal one sometimes emarginate.

Racemes

1–4-flowered;

axis very short in fruit.

(1–)3–7-flowered;

axis (0–)0.5–2 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

(0.2–)0.5–4.5 cm.

(1.5–)2.5–5.5(–6.5) cm.

Flowers

calyx 3–4.6 mm, pilosulous, tube 1.6–2.7 mm, lobes 1.5–2.1 mm;

corolla banner (4–)4.9–6.7 mm;

keel apex triangular, slightly beaklike.

calyx 3.4–4.7 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 2–2.8 mm, lobes (1.2–)1.5–2.2(–2.5) mm;

corolla banner 6.3–7.6(–9.2) mm;

keel apex obtusely rounded.

Legumes

13–18 × 2.6–3.2 mm, loosely strigulose.

somewhat hamate, (12–)14–20 × 2.1–3.3 mm, glabrous or minutely strigulose.

Seeds

10–16.

13–17.

Astragalus nuttallianus var. zapatanus

Astragalus nuttallianus var. micranthiformis

Phenology Flowering Feb–Mar. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sandy, frequently disturbed sites. Mixed salt-desert and desert shrub, sagebrush, and pinyon-juniper communities.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) (1000–)1100–1900 m. ((3300–)3600–6200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas)
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from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
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Discussion

Variety zapatanus occurs in the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to the Gulf Coast and into northeastern Mexico.

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

D. Isely (1998) suggested that large-flowered individuals within the range of var. micranthiformis are intermediates with var. austrinus. Ranges of these varieties are discrete, however, and larger-flowered plants may be part of normal variation. Variety micranthiformis occurs in approximately one-fourth of each state around the Four Corners area.

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

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Leptocarpi > Astragalus nuttallianus Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Leptocarpi > Astragalus nuttallianus
Sibling taxa
A. nuttallianus var. austrinus, A. nuttallianus var. cedrosensis, A. nuttallianus var. imperfectus, A. nuttallianus var. macilentus, A. nuttallianus var. micranthiformis, A. nuttallianus var. nuttallianus, A. nuttallianus var. pleianthus, A. nuttallianus var. trichocarpus
A. nuttallianus var. austrinus, A. nuttallianus var. cedrosensis, A. nuttallianus var. imperfectus, A. nuttallianus var. macilentus, A. nuttallianus var. nuttallianus, A. nuttallianus var. pleianthus, A. nuttallianus var. trichocarpus, A. nuttallianus var. zapatanus
Name authority Barneby: Field & Lab. 24: 36. (1956) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 1064. (1964)
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