Flora of North America species comparison

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Astragalus pubentissimus var. peabodianus
Photo is of parent taxon

peabody's milkvetch
Stems

spreading-decumbent.
Corollas

ochroleucous or pale to dark pink-purple, often fading yellowish (varicolored, often in same inflorescence).
Legumes

4–5 mm wide.

Astragalus pubentissimus var. peabodianus
Phenology Flowering (late Apr–)May–Jun.
Habitat Pinyon-juniper and mixed desert shrub communi­ties.
Elevation 1300–1800(–2100) m. (4300–5900(–6900) ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
UT
Discussion

Variety peabodianus occurs in entrenched channels affluent to both the Colorado and Green rivers along the southern and western flanks of the East Tavaputs Plateau in Emery and Grand counties; it is perhaps a connecting link between var. pubentissimus and Astragalus pardalinus.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Inflati > Astragalus pubentissimus
Sibling taxa
A. pubentissimus var. pubentissimus
Synonyms A. peabodianus
Name authority (M. E. Jones) S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 38: 297. (1978)
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