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Habit Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex slightly subterranean, branched.
Stems

usually single.

Leaves

odd-pinnate, usually sessile or subsessile, rarely short-petiolate proximally;

leaflets (15–)21–33(or 35).

Racemes

loosely flowered, flowers ascending.

Corollas

pink-purple or whitish tinged with lilac, banner recurved through 40°, keel apex sharply deltate-triangular.

Calyx

tubes short-cylindric.

Legumes

persistent, subsessile, incurved-ascending or suberect, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, keeled ventrally, grooved dorsally, semibilocular.

Seeds

30–40.

Hairs

basifixed.

Stipules

distinct.

Astragalus sect. Michauxiani

Distribution
se United States
Discussion

Species 1.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 542. (1964)
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