| Astragalus eucesmus Robins. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Atelophragma elegans (Hook.) Rydb., Atelophragma oroboides var. americanus Gray., Phaca elegans Hook. | ||
| Description | Stems from short, woody rhizome; stipules lanceolate to ovate; leaves with 9-17 narrowly oblong to elliptic, obtuse leaflets, glabrous above, canescent beneath; flowering raceme first dense, soon elongating; calyx black-haired with linear-lanceo- late teeth; corolla purple; wings only slightly longer than keel; pods sessile or short- stipulated, obliquely ellipsoid to ovoid, reflexed, densely black-hirsute (or rarely white-hirsute) to strigose. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel, stony slopes, meadows. Described from the Rocky Mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Eurasiatic range on the circumpolar map represents the closely related A. norveégicus Grauer (A. oroboides Hornem.). |
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.