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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "Stems 3-5.5 dm. long." (bibref: 1813).
Leaf: "Stipules 3-6 mm. long, the lowest papery-membranous or early becoming so, ovate, decurrent around more or less half the stem's circumference, the median and upper ones narrower, deltoid or triangular-acuminate, green but thin-textured, commonly reflexed, the margins ciliate and often beset with a few minute, tack-shaped processes, leaves widely ascending or some refracted, (3) 5-12 cm. long, the uppermost subsessile, with 23-29 lance-oblong, oblong, or oblong-elliptic, nearly always emarginate or retuse, flat leaflets 6-22 mm. long, glabrous above." (bibref: 1813).
Flower: "Peduncles mostly a little shorter than, sometimes equaling the leaf, 4.5-10.5 cm. long, incurved-ascending at anthesis, commonly weighed down by the heavy fruits, racemes 7-15- flowered, the axis a little elongating, 1.5-7.5 cm. long in fruit; bracts membranous, triangular-lanceolate, 1.5-3.3 mm. long; pedicels 1.5-3.3 mm. long, at anthesis ascending, straight or nearly so, in fruit scarcely or no longer, a little thickened, arched outward; bracteoles usually 2, often conspicuous, rarely 0, calyx 6-9.4 mm. long, villosulous with black, fuscous, or sometimes largely white hairs, the somewhat oblique disc 1.3-2 mm. deep, the tube 4.2-5.5 mm. long, 3 4.5 mm. in diameter, the broadly subulate teeth 1.7-4 mm. long, the ventral pair commonly broadest and shortest, the orifice oblique, the whole becoming papery, marcescent unruptured; petals whitish, drying ochroleucous or yellowish; banner broadly rhombic or rhombic-obovate, notched, 13.8-19.3 mm. long, 7.6-9.5 mm. wide; wings 12.1-15.8 mm. long, the claws 4.5-5.8 mm., the linear-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse but erose or subemarginate, gently incurved blades 8.3-11.9 mm. long, 2.3-3.5 wide; keel 9.5-12.3 mm. long, the claws 4.6-5.7 mm., the lunately half- obovate or obliquely triangular blades 5.2-7.4 mm. long, 2.5-3.4 mm. wide, incurved through 85-100 degrees to the bluntly deltoid apex; anthers (0.4) 0.45-0.7 mm. long." (bibref: 1813).
Fruit: "Pod loosely pendulous (often humistrate and hence variably oriented), loosely strigulose with incurved hairs up to 0.25-0.35 mm, stipitate, the slender stipe 5-8 mm. long, the body plumply oblong-ovoid or half- ovoid, 1-1.6 cm. long, (4) 4.5-7 mm. in diameter, abruptly contracted at both ends, beaked with a sharp, subulate, subpungent cusp, subterete and solid when first formed, becoming a little compressed laterally and bicarinate by the cordlike ventral and narrower, undulate dorsal sutures, the smooth, green, fleshy valves becoming stiffly leathery or woody, brownish-stramineous, coarsely rugulose-reticulate, inflexed as a complete septum nearly as broad as the pod's diameter; seeds (seldom seen) brown, sometimes purple-dotted, smooth or sparsely pitted, dull, 2.6-3.5 mm. long, the fruits deciduous and remaining long unopened on the ground." (bibref: 1813).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: White , Yellow
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun , Jul
Bloom Notes: "Petals whitish, drying ochroleucous or yellowish." (bibref: 1813).

Distribution

USA: OR
Native Distribution: "Local but forming extensive colonies on the upper forks of the Umpqua and the middle Rogue Rivers, southern Douglas and eastern Josephine Counties, Oregon." (bibref: 1813).
Native Habitat: "Dry hillsides in shade of oaks, in light gravelly soils rich in humus from decaying litter, 500-2500 feet." (bibref: 1813).

Bibliography

Bibref 1813 - Atlas of North American Astragalus (1964) Barneby, Rupert C.

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Additional resources

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