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naked milk vetch, Shockley's milkvetch

Stems

20–45(–53) cm.

Leaves

5–11(–15) cm.

Racemes

(3–)9–16-flowered;

axis (2–)5–15 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

9–18 cm.

Corollas

purple, petals strongly graduated;

banner 17–20 mm.

Legumes

plumply oblong, straight or slightly incurved 17–31 × 5–12 mm, semibilocular, septum 2–4 mm wide.

Astragalus serenoi var. shockleyi

Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Tuff and gravel to clay washes.
Elevation 1400–2000 m. (4600–6600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Variety shockleyi is known from Lyon and Mineral counties, western Nevada, to Inyo and Mono counties in eastern California.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Nudi > Astragalus serenoi
Sibling taxa
A. serenoi var. serenoi, A. serenoi var. sordescens
Synonyms A. shockleyi
Name authority (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Brittonia 36: 168. (1984)
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