| Astragalus umbellatus Bunge | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Phaca frigida var. litoralis Hook., Astragalus frigidus var. litoralis (Hook.) S. Wats. | ||
| Description | Stems white-short-pubescent, from woody caudex, with subterranean runners, with leafless sheaths at base; stipules brown, membranaceous, broadly ovate, white- or black-pubescent; leaflets 7-11, ovate to oblong-ovate, blunt, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; racemes longer than leaves, few-flowered, crowded; calyx more or less black- or white-pubescent, with triangular, acute teeth; corolla ochroleucous, the standard rounded, emarginate; pod ovate to elliptic, acute at both ends; black- strigose, stigma glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, solifluction soil, heaths, meadows, in the mountains to at least 1,100 meters. | ||
| Uses | The root is edible and used by the natives of Siberia. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.