Flora of North America species comparison

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Astragalus sect. Podosclerocarpi
Habit Herbs perennial, caulescent; caudex superficial or shallowly subterranean.
Stems

clustered or several to many.
Leaves

odd-pinnate, sessile or subsessile to short-petiolate;

leaflets (5 or)7–17(–21).
Racemes

loosely flowered, sometimes initially densely flowered, flowers ascending.
Corollas

whitish or lilac-tinged, banner recurved through 40–45°, keel apex obtuse.
Calyx

tubes campanulate to subcylindric.
Legumes

eventually deciduous, stipitate, pendulous or horizontally spreading, lunately to falcately ellipsoid or oblong, incurved or coiled, laterally compressed, with protruding sutures, or subterete, unilocular.
Seeds

(14–)20–36.
Hairs

basifixed.
Stipules

distinct.

Astragalus sect. Podosclerocarpi
Distribution
w North America
Discussion

Species 3 (3 in the flora).

Section Podosclerocarpi consists of species from the Columbia Basin in interior Washington, extreme northeastern Oregon, and southern British Columbia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus
Subordinate taxa
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 225. (1864)
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