Key to Astragalus pulsiferae
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Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1' Crown below surface; stem
strigose With stiff, straight, sharp, appressed hairs.
to hairy; stipules distinct or lowermost
fused around stem; fruit strigose to hairy, hairs 0.4–0.9 mm
2. Stem, main
leaf Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).
axis,
peduncle Stalk of an individual flower borne singly, not in an inflorescence, or of an entire inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit; the stalk subtending an involucre (e.g., in Asteraceae, Polygonaceae).
hairy, hairs ±
spreading Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.
to
ascending Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment.
..... var. pulsiferae
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