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Key to Astragalus lentiginosusView taxon page for Astragalus lentiginosus
(For a list of species in Astragalus lentiginosus, use the above link.) Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 1' Leaflets generally >= 7, often wider than linear-oblanceolate 2. Calyx generally > 6.5 mm; keel 8.4–15 mm; 4. Inflorescence 7–20-flowered, 1–4 cm in fruit; petals pink-purple; herbage hairs subappressed ..... var. idriensis 4' Inflorescence 10–32-flowered, 4–15 cm in fruit; petals purple, ± yellow, or white; herbage hairs ± spreading  Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal. or ± appressed  Parallel or nearly parallel to and often in contact with surface of origin; used to describe the disposition of hairs, leaves, pedicels, etc. 6' Petals generally purple or ± pink; SNE (Inyo Co.), D 7. Herbage sparsely hairy, ± green, or if densely hairy then generally either fruit sparsely hairy or calyx lobes  1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth. < 1.4 mm 8' Stem ascending  Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment. or spreading, < 50 cm; generally sand, widespread ..... var. variabilis (4) 7' Herbage hairs dense, silvery, ± gray, or ± white, fruit densely hairy, calyx lobes > 1.4 mm 9' Fruit swollen, often bladdery, > 8 mm wide, upper suture convex in side view; n DMoj, nw DSon 2' Calyx generally < 6.5 mm; keel 5.5–10 mm (8.4–12.3 mm in Astragalus lentiginosus var. variabilis) 11. Leaflet densely hairy, ashy-gray or silvery, at least on 1 side 12' Fruit beak straight or curved up, toward stem; various habitats, generally except clayey, alkaline flats, seeps; DMoj, CA-FP 13' Fruit cluster > 4 cm; gravel or sand on flats, washes, valleys with creosote, sagebrush, pinyon/juniper; DMoj, s CA-FP 11' Leaflet sparsely hairy or ± glabrous, green (sometimes densely hairy, ± gray in Astragalus lentiginosus var. ineptus) 15. Plants of MP, n SNE (from c Mono Co.), ± ne CA-FP 16. Fruit stiff-papery, ± opaque, minutely hairy at least in youth, often little inflated, not bladdery, strongly incurved ..... var. lentiginosus 16' Fruit thinly papery, translucent, ± glabrous, bladdery, ± straight 17' Fruit cluster ± open; stem generally with 0–few branches in lower 1/2, generally < 30 cm ..... var. salinus 15' Plants of s CA-FP, SNE, D 18. Petals generally bright pink-purple; fruit 12–36 mm 18' Petals generally ± white, sometimes pink-tinged; fruit 6–22 mm 20. Fruit beak ± cylindric  Elongate, with parallel sides and, at any point, round in transverse section. , slender; calyx lobes generally < 1.2 mm, acute  Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle. , slender – s SNH ..... var. kernensis 20' Fruit beak flat, ± triangular; calyx lobes often > 1.2 mm, acute, slender (if < 1.2 mm, then blunt, triangular) 21' Calyx lobes > 1.2 mm, acute, slender; SNH, SNE
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