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ashen milkvetch, chloride milkvetch

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ashen milkvetch

Stems

2–15 cm.

1–12(–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.

4.5–10(–19) cm;

leaflets (11–)17–27(–31), blades mostly conduplicate, loosely folded, obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, 3–16 mm, apex obtuse, emarginate, or subacute.

Racemes

13–24-flowered;

axis (4–)7–20 cm in fruit.

(9–)11–20-flowered;

axis 2–6(–8.5) cm in fruit.

Peduncles

13–40 cm.

4–14(–17) 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.

11.8–17.5 mm;

calyx (5–)6.4–8.5(–9.2) mm, tube (3.5–)4.5–6.8(–8) mm, lobes 1.2–2.2 mm;

corolla banner 11.8–17.5 mm;

keel 10.2–14.5 mm.

Legumes

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

obliquely ovoid-acuminate, 13–20 × 5–8 mm, beak 3–6 mm, thinly leathery, hardly rigid, not rugulose, densely pilosulous.

Seeds

28–36.

26–31.

Stipules

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

2–7 mm.

2n

= 22.

= 22.

Astragalus tephrodes var. chloridae

Astragalus tephrodes var. tephrodes

Phenology Flowering Mar–May. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Larrea and juniper communi­ties. Oak brush, among junipers, in yucca-grasslands, edges of ponderosa pine forests, on granitic or volcanic bedrock.
Elevation 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) 1400–2200 m. (4600–7200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NV
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
[BONAP county map]
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.)

Variety tephrodes is locally plentiful in the foothills of the Mogollon and Pinos Altos mountains in southwestern New Mexico, eastward to the Organ Mountains and southward into Mexico.

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

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