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dirtyish milkvetch, naked milkvetch

Stems

15–30 cm.

Leaves

2–10 cm.

Racemes

5–15-flowered;

axis 2–7(–10) cm in fruit.

Peduncles

3–10 cm.

Corollas

ochroleucous and margined or tinged lavender, petals not especially graduated;

banner 14.5–16 mm.

Legumes

obliquely ovoid, slightly incurved, 15–22 × 5–7 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, septum 0–1 mm wide.

Astragalus serenoi var. sordescens

Phenology Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Gentle slopes and flats among, and often sheltering under or scrambling up through, low sagebrush.
Elevation 1500–2100 m. (4900–6900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
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Discussion

Variety sordescens is known from Esmeralda and Nye counties.

(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. shockleyi
Name authority Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 195. (1954)
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