| Astragalus nutzotinensis Rousseau | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus falciferus Hult., Gynophoraria falcata Rydb., Astragalus gynophoraria Tidestr. | ||
| Description | Stem weak, slender, from branching, delicate, subterranean rhizome; stipules ovate, clasplng, connate, glabrous or strigulose; leaves with 7-15 ovate to obovate or oblong-lanceolate obtuse more or less retuse leaflets; racemes 2—4-flowered; flowers large, 12-17 mm long; calyx strigillose, with black hairs and subulate teeth, separated by wide sinuses; petals reddish-purple, pale at base; pod glabrous, com- pressed laterally, with long stipe (gynophore) within calyx, at first nearly straight, linear, in age semicircular, broader, black- or white-strigillose. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy soil, gravel bars, in the mountains to about 1,000 meters. |
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.