Flora of North America species comparison

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Astragalus sect. Euodmus
Habit Herbs perennial, forming large clumps, caulescent; caudex superficial or shallowly subterranean.
Stems

few to several.
Leaves

odd-pinnate, petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets 19–37.
Racemes

densely flowered, flowers declined.
Corollas

greenish white, banner and wing apices often purple-suffused, banner recurved through 20–30°, keel apex obtuse.
Calyx

tubes campanulate.
Legumes

falling with pedicel, subsessile, deflexed, 3-sided compressed, curved-oblong, bilocular.
Seeds

12–14.
Hairs

malpighian.
Stipules

connate at proximal nodes, at distal nodes distinct.

Astragalus sect. Euodmus
Distribution
Europe; Asia [Introduced in North America]
Discussion

Species 1 (1 in the flora).

A close affinity exists between the Old World sect. Euodmus and sect. Uliginosi (R. C. Barneby 1964). D. Podlech and S. Zarre (2013) considered sect. Euodmus to be synonymous with sect. Uliginosi.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Bunge: Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 11(16): 96. (1868)
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