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Habit Herbs perennial, clump-forming, caulescent; caudex aerial.
Stems

several to many.

Leaves

odd-pinnate, short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets 11–25(or 27).

Racemes

loosely flowered, flowers ascending.

Corollas

white, faintly lavender, or lemon yellow, banner recurved through 45°, keel apex obtuse.

Calyx

tubes broadly campanulate.

Legumes

persistent, stipitate, spreading or incurved-ascending, lunate or falcate, oblong-cylindroid, compressed laterally, sutures keeled, bilocular.

Seeds

20–36.

Hairs

basifixed.

Stipules

distinct.

Astragalus sect. Pachypodes

Distribution
California
Discussion

Species 1.

Section Pachypodes occurs in the South Coast Ranges, western Mohave Desert, and interior southern California.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms A. subg. jones
Name authority (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 487. (1964)
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