| Astragalus agrestis Dougl. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus goniatus Nutt., Astragalus hypoglottis var. dasyglottis (Fisch.) Ledeb., Astragalus dasyglottis Fisch., Astragalus tarletonensis Rydb. | ||
| Description | Stems weak, decumbent or erect, from taproot; stipules ovate to lanceolate, obtuse; leaves with 10-19 linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, mostly retuse, appressed-pubescent leaflets; raceme capitate; calyx strigose with linear teeth: corolla purplish and more or less whitish; wings slender, longer than keel; pods sessile, erect, ovoid, deeply sulcate, grayish- to blackish-hirsute. | ||
| Ecology | Moist meadows. Described from the Red River south toward Pembina. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related A. danicus Retz. |
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.