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Habit Herbs perennial, forming bushy clumps, caulescent; caudex superficial, branched.
Stems

several to many.

Leaves

odd-pinnate, short-petiolate;

leaflets (1–)5–11.

Racemes

loosely flowered, flowers ascending.

Corollas

purple, or ochroleucous and margined or tinged lavender, banner recurved through 35–45°, keel apex obtuse.

Calyx

tubes short-cylindric or narrowly cylindric.

Legumes

persistent, sessile, erect, ovoid or oblong-ovoid, subterete, unilocular to semibilocular.

Seeds

29–42.

Hairs

basifixed.

Stipules

distinct.

Astragalus sect. Nudi

Distribution
w 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
Synonyms Brachyphragma
Name authority (Rydberg) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 545. (1964)
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