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ashen milkvetch, chloride milkvetch

Stems

2–15 cm.

Leaves

10–24 cm;

leaflets 19–25, blades flat, rhombic, rhombic-ovate, obovate, or oblanceolate, 6–26 mm, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse.

Racemes

13–24-flowered;

axis (4–)7–20 cm in fruit.

Peduncles

13–40 cm.

Flowers

16.8–20.4 mm;

calyx 11.5–14 mm, pilosulous or loosely strigulose, tube 8.3–10.2 mm, lobes 2.1–3.8 mm;

corolla banner 16.8–20.4 mm;

keel 15.2–18.2 mm.

Legumes

lanceolate- or oblong-ellipsoid, 22–34 × 6–10(–12) mm, beak 3–6 mm, stiffly leathery or subligneous, angles ± rugulose, strigulose-pilosulous.

Seeds

28–36.

Stipules

2–15 mm, surfaces sparsely strigulose or glabrate abaxially.

2n

= 22.

Astragalus tephrodes var. chloridae

Phenology Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat Larrea and juniper communi­ties.
Elevation 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NV
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Discussion

As strictly perceived, var. chloridae is restricted to the Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, and the Newberry Mountains, Clark County, Nevada. D. Isely (1998) allowed a somewhat broader range in Mohave County.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Astragalus > sect. Argophylli > Astragalus tephrodes
Sibling taxa
A. tephrodes var. brachylobus, A. tephrodes var. tephrodes
Synonyms A. remulcus var. chloridae
Name authority (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 642. (1964)
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