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Annual to tree.
Leaf: generally alternate, generally compound, generally stipuled, generally entire, pinnately veined
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; or flowers 1–few in axils.
Flower: generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium 0 or flat to tubular; sepals generally 5, generally fused; petals generally 5, free, fused, or lower 2 ± united into keel (see 3, Key to Groups, for banner, wings); stamens 10 or many (or [1], 5, 6, 7, 9), free or fused or 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1–many, style, stigma 1.
Fruit: legume, including a stalk-like base (above receptacle) or not.
Seed: 1–many, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth.
± 730 genera, 19400 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture, most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis, peanut; Glycine, soybean; Phaseolus, beans; Medicago, alfalfa; Trifolium, clovers; many orns. [Lewis et al. (eds) 2005 Legumes of the World. RBG, Kew] Unless stated otherwise, fruit length incl stalk-like base, number of 2° leaflets is per 1° leaflet. Upper suture of fruit adaxial, lower abaxial. Anthyllis vulneraria L. evidently a waif, a contaminant of legume seed from Europe. Laburnum anagyroides Medik., collected on Mount St. Helena in 1987, may be naturalized. Ceratonia siliqua L., carob tree (Group 2), differs from Gleditsia triacanthos L. in having evergreen (vs deciduous) leaves that are 1-pinnate (vs 1-pinnate on spurs on old stems, 2-pinnate on new stems) with 2–5(8) (vs 7–17) 1° leaflets, commonly cult, now naturalized in s CA. Aeschynomene rudis Benth. <Noxious weed>, Halimodendron halodendron (Pall.) Voss <Noxious weed> (possibly extirpated), Lens culinaris Medik. are agricultural weeds. Caragana arborescens Lam. only cult. Ononis alopecuroides L. <Noxious weed>, Sphaerophysa salsula (Pall.) DC. <Noxious weed> all evidently extirpated. Cercidium moved to Parkinsonia; Chamaecytisus to Cytisus; Psoralidium lanceolatum to Ladeania. —Scientific Editors: Martin F. Wojciechowski, Thomas J. Rosatti.

Key to Fabaceae

Annual, perennial herb from crown, generally unarmed; hairs generally present, simple or branches 2, from base, parallel to leaf surface, unequal or not.
Stem: 0 or prostrate to erect.
Leaf: odd-1- pinnate (or palmately compound); leaflets generally jointed to midrib, entire; stipules membranous, lower fused around stem into sheaths ( stipule sheaths) or not.
Inflorescence: raceme, head- or umbel-like or not, axillary; flowers 2–many.
Flower: bilateral; keel petals with small protrusion at base locking into pit on adjacent wing; 9 filaments fused, 1 free; ovary (and fruit) generally sessile, style slender, stigma minute.
Fruit: generally 1- or ± 2-chambered, often mottled, generally ± dry in age, sometimes deciduous (falling from plant with or without pedicel, calyx, receptacle) before dehiscence.
Seed: 2–many, smooth, compressed, ± notched at attachment scar.
> 2500 species: ± worldwide (380 in North America, 97 in CA, including many rare taxa). (Greek: ankle-bone or dice, perhaps from rattling of seeds within fruit) Difficult; flower and fruit needed for identification; fruit said to be "deciduous" dehisce only after fruit has separated from plant; many good species appear similar; some species complexes need study. Taxa near province boundaries may appear in > 1 key. Varieties keyed under species for simplicity; species with vars. so identified in key. Fr length incl beak and any stalk-like base unless fruit body specified; fruit depth is suture-to-suture axis. Astragalus tephrodes A. Gray var. brachylobus (A. Gray) Barneby in sw UT, AZ, near CA.
Unabridged references: [Barneby 1964 Mem New York Bot Gard 20:1–1188; Isely 1998 Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States]

Perennial, robust, bushy-clumped; hairs fine, ± spreading, wavy.
Stem: ± erect, 3–8 dm.
Leaf: 4.5–17 cm; stipule sheaths ± hairy or densely shaggy, generally ruptured by stem expansion; leaflets 11–31, 5–32 mm, ± lanceolate.
Inflorescence: flowers 20–65, spaced, early ascending, then reflexed.
Flower: calyx tube 6–8.5 mm; petals cream, banner 15.3–19 mm, recurved ± 50°, keel 13.1–14.7 mm.
Fruit: spreading or pendent; body 25–45 mm, 8–15 mm wide, inflated, compressed side-to-side, ± half- elliptic in side view, sparsely strigose, thinly papery, translucent; stalk-like base 3–11 mm, minutely, densely hairy, jointed at top; chamber 1; ovules 8–18.
2n=22. Arid grassland, scrub; 100–1200 m. s Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Inner South Coast Ranges, Western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains.

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