| Astragalus robbinsii var. minor (Hook.) Barneby | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus macounii Rydb., Phaca elegans var. minor Hook., Astragalus collieri (Rydb.) Pors., Atelophragma collieri Rydb. | ||
| Description | Stem stout, ascending or erect, from woody rhizome; stipules lance-ovate; leaves with 9—-13 oblong to obovate leaflets, glabrous above, sparingly strigillose to glabrous beneath; racemes up to 20-flowered, lax in age; calyx black-strigose, with lance- deltoid teeth; petals whitish, with tip of keel purple; keel shorter than wings, much shorter than banner; pod scarcely grooved dorsally, ellipsoid, with stipe 1.5-5 mm long, black- or white-strigillose. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, stream banks. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A. Robbinsii described from Vermont, var. minor from the Rocky Mountains. |
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.