| Astragalus polaris Benth. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus amblyodon (Rydb.) Hult., Homalobus amblyodon Rydb. | ||
| Description | Stems weak, slender, from branching, delicate, subterranean rhizome; stipules triangular-ovate, clasping, connate, glabrous or ciliate; leaves with 7-17 oblong- obovate to obovate-cuneate, retuse, more or less crowded leaflets; racemes few- flowered; calyx strigillose, with black or white hairs and triangular-subulate to tri- angular teeth; petals lilac-purple; pod sessile, lanceolate-oblong when young, be- coming strongly inflated and papery-membranous in age. | ||
| Ecology | Salt marshes along coast, gravel and sandy soil inland. |
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.