| Astragalus aboriginum Richards. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus australis, Astragalus richardsonii Sheld., Astragalus lepagei Hult., Homalobus aboriginorum (Richards.) Rydb., Astragalus linearis (Rydb.) Pors., Atelophragma lineare Rydb., Atelophragma aboriginum (Richards.) Rydb., Astragalus aboriginorum var. muriei Hult. | ||
| Description | Stems several, from woody taproot, prostrate to ascending, with large, obtuse stipules at base; leaves sparsely to densely sericeous to strigose or villose, with 7-15 linear to oblong-elliptic leaflets; flowers nodding; calyx with linear teeth; petals whitish or cream-colored; wings bidentate at tip, longer than keel; pod pendulous, membranaceous, falcate-lunate with slender stipe, about as long as calyx, glabrous or pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Stony and sandy soil, rocks. Described from Carlton House, Saskatchewan. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Extremely variable in form of leaflets, size of flowers, and pubescence. Eurasiatic range shown is that of A. australis (L.) Lam. (Phaca australis L.). | ||
| Uses | The root is edible. |
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.