| Astragalus tenellus Pursh | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Homalobus tenellus (Pursh) Britt. & Rydb. | ||
| Description | Stems several, erect or ascending, from thick woody taproot; stipules lanceolate, the lowest papery, brown, clasping, connate, forming subcylindric sheath; leaves with 11-21 leaflets, more or less crowded, linear-oblong to lanceolate, acute to obtuse; racemes many-flowered; calyx strigillose, with black or white hairs and linear to subulate teeth; petals white to cream-colored, or with tip of keel lilac; pod pendulous, stipitate, oblong-elliptic, strongly compressed, glabrous or strigillose. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel bars, shores. Described from the banks of the Missouri River. |
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.