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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "Stems rarely developed and up to 5 (10) cm." (bibref: 1814).
Leaf: "Stipules submembranous becoming papery, often brownish when old, 2-8 (10) mm. long, the lowest (often dorsally glabrate) and sometimes all ovate or broadly lanceolate, the upper ones commonly longer and narrower, decurrent-amplexicaul around half to the whole stem's circumference, but the margins, even when in contact, not united; leaves 1.5-6 (8) cm. long, with 7-15 (17) oval-obovate, obtuse or very shortly acuminate and then subacute leaflets 2-9 mm. long." (bibref: 1814).
Flower: "Peduncles almost 0 to 9 cm. long, usually much and always a little shorter than the leaf, incurved-ascending at anthesis, arcuately reclinate or prostrate in fruit; bracts membranous or broadly membranous-margined, ovate or lanceolate, 1.8-6.5 mm. long; pedicels ascending or a trifle arched outward, at anthesis slender, 1.2-3.2 mm. long, in fruit a little thickened, 1.8-3.8 mm. long; bracteoles commonly 0, exceptionally present and up to 2.5 mm. long; calyx 9-12 (14) mm. long, pubescent like the herbage with white and often some or nearly all black hairs, the somewhat oblique disc 1-2.5 mm. deep, the cylindric, pallid or purplish tube 6.8-8.7 (10.6) mm. long, 2.8-3.4 mm. in diameter, the subulate or linear-subulate teeth 1.9-3.4 (4.2) mm. long, the whole becoming papery, ruptured, marcescent; petals either bright pink-purple (drying bluish), or tinged with lilac or dull purple; banner oblanceolate, broadly rhombic-oblanceolate, or spatulate, notched, 15-24 mm. long, 5.6-8.6 (10) mm. wide; wings a little shorter,14.2-17.1 (22.6) mm. long, the lance-oblong, claws obtuse blades rather abruptly narrowed and usually a little incurved in the distal third; keel 12.1-20.3 mm. long, keel-claws 7.5-9.8 (12.7) mm. long the half- obovate or lunately elliptic blades 4.6-6.1 (8.3) mm. long, 2.5-3.4 mm. wide, gently incurved through 80-90 (95) degrees to the blunt apex; anthers 0.45-0.85 mm. long." (bibref: 1814).
Fruit: "Pod ascending (humistrate), lunately lance-ellipsoid or narrowly and very obliquely ovoid-acuminate, 1.5-2.7 cm. long, 5-8 (9) mm. in diameter, either straight proximally and incurved into the deltoid or triangular-acuminate, laterally compressed beak, or gently incurved (through up to 1/2-circle) its whole length, obcompressed and dorsally flattened or very shallowly and widely sulcate in the lower ?, the ventral suture thick and prominent but sometimes depressed and lying in a double groove, the more or less fleshy, green valves becoming brownish, stiffly leathery or woody, faintly to quite strongly rugulose-reticulate and sometimes also wrinkled lengthwise on the ventral side, the surface of the valves concealed or nearly so by a dense coat of appressed and narrowly ascending, silvery hairs up to 0.5-0.75 mm. long; ovules 25-43; seeds brown, smooth or sparsely pitted, dull, 1.7-3 mm. long." (bibref: 1814).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Pink , Blue , Purple , Violet
Bloom Time: May , Jun , Jul
Bloom Notes: "Petals either bright pink-purple (drying bluish), or tinged with lilac or dull purple. May to July, exceptionally later." (bibref: 1814).

Distribution

USA: AZ , UT
Native Distribution: "Locally plentiful about the headwaters of the Sevier River in Garfield, Iron, and Kane Counties, east in Garfield County to the Henry Mountains, Utah; apparently also (with larger flowers) on the slopes of Mt. Emma, Uinkaret Plateau, Coconino County, Arizona." (bibref: 1814).
Native Habitat: "Gravelly hillsides and benches in yellow pine forest, coming out into sagebrush flats, 6750-9300 feet." (bibref: 1814).

Bibliography

Bibref 1814 - Atlas of North American Astragalus Volume 2 (1964) Barneby, Rupert C.

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Additional resources

USDA: Find Astragalus argophyllus var. panguicensis in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Astragalus argophyllus var. panguicensis in the Flora of North America (if available)
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