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 Flowers Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Leaves Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant - summer Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
A prostrate, spreading plant with rather unusual yellowish-green flowers that may have white, pink or purple highlights.
Identification notes: A plant with trailing stems, hairy leaves, a calyx with teeth mostly 2/3 as long or longer than the tube, flowers about 1/2 inch long and a beak-like prolongation of the keel distinguishes this from other Astragalus sp.
Height:
Less than 6 inches
Habitat Description: In sandy soils of volcanic origin on slopes, benches, and ledges in xeric pine forest.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 5000 - 9000 feet
Color:
Yellowish-green, whitish, purplish
Shape:
Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
May - Sep
Description:
3 to 30 flowers in clusters; 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length.
Leaf Color:
Greenish-gray
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves 1/2 to 2 inches long, with 9 to 19 oblong to lanceolate leaflets, about 1/4 inch long. Stems are 1/2 to 2-1/2 inches long.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Pod
Seed Notes: The pods are slightly curved, 1/4 to 3/4 inch in length, hairy and are attached close to the the stem. Usually found lying on the ground at maturity.
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