Astragalus tephrodes var. chloridae |
Astragalus tephrodes var. tephrodes |
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ashen milkvetch, chloride milkvetch |
ashen milkvetch |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; NV |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora) |
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. |
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Synonyms | A. remulcus var. chloridae | |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 642. (1964) | unknown |
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