Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 2577, Astragalus tenellus  
 

 

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Photographed 7 December 2021.

Plants of Colorado
Fabaceae

Oxytropis sericea Torr. & A. Gray.  White Locoweed.

Salt Creek, Park County, Colorado. Small valley between two ridges, just north of Salt Creek and Pike-San Isabel National Forest Road 435 "Salt Creek Road," 3.1 mi. by road west of US Highway 285, 145 km. southwest of the GNIS location of Golden. 38.9591°N, 106.0121°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 2858 m. Flowers white. Valley bottom, around a small grove of aspens, also collected here: Oenothera coronopifolia, Penstemon virgatus var. asa-grayi and Artemisia frigida. Variety sericea if infraspecific names are to be applied.

Collected by permit: Pike - San Isabel National Forest, 2021, issued: Mar 29, 2021, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich 2576. 12-Jul-2021

Coll. No. 2577, 12 July 2021, characters observed: Perennial herb, to 35 cm., caulescent, weak; Stem, strigose; Leaves, compound, stipules, free, leaflets, #15, 12 mm. × 2 mm. wide, linear-oblong, strigose; Calyx, tube 2 mm. + lobes 1.8 mm., black strigose, not inflated in fruit; Flowers, 6.5 mm., white(ish), keel, 5 mm., purple-spotted; Fruit, spreading, short stipitate, 5.5 mm., laterally compressed, strigose with black and few white hairs.

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