Astragalus sect. Miselli
several to many.
odd-pinnate, usually subsessile to petiolate, rarely sessile;
leaflets (3–)9–27(–37).
loosely or densely flowered, flowers usually declined, sometimes ascending.
white, greenish white, ochroleucous, yellowish, or pink-purple, banner recurved through 45–90°, keel apex obtuse to sharply acute.
tubes campanulate.
ultimately deciduous, stipitate or subsessile, usually pendulous, sometimes declined or spreading, straight or incurved, linear, lanceoloid, oblong, or narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided, ± bilocular.
(6–)8–30.
basifixed.
distinct.
Astragalus sect. Miselli
Species 13 (10 in the flora).
Section Miselli comprises 13 species distributed in the western United States from the Sierra Nevada and Cascade and Coast ranges eastward to the Rocky Mountains, and in Coahuila and the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
