| Astragalus williamsii Rydb. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus gormani Wight. | ||
| Description | Stems erect, from stout, woody caudex; lowest stipules oblong-obovate, the upper narrower, membranaceous; lowest leaves short-petiolated, with 5-15 petiolulate, linear-oblong to lanceolate or sometimes obovate, retuse, somewhat fleshy leaflets; racemes surpassing leaves; flowers numerous; calyx strigillose, with black or white hairs and triangular-subulate teeth, becoming marcescent; petals ochroleucous, with keel bluish at tip; pod erect, ovoid to lance-ovoid, strigillose, on short gynophore. | ||
| Ecology | Banks of streams, river bars, poplar and aspen woods. |
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.