Astragalus pulsiferae
Astragalus pulsiferae is a species of milkvetch known by the common name Ames's milkvetch. It is native to California and Nevada, and it is known but rare in Washington. It is known from many habitat types, including mountains and plateaus.
| Astragalus pulsiferae | |
|---|---|
 | |
| var. suksdorfi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Astragalus |
| Species: | A. pulsiferae |
| Binomial name | |
| Astragalus pulsiferae | |
Description
This is a very small perennial herb forming small mats or patches on the ground. The hairy stems are generally less than 3 cm (1.2 in) long. The leaves may grow to about 5 cm (2.0 in) long and are made up of several oval shaped leaflets. The inflorescence is an array of 3 to 13 small flowers, each white with purplish veins and tips.
The fruit is a rounded legume pod 1 to 2 cm (0.39 to 0.79 in) long which dries to a very thin papery texture and has a coat of hairs.
gollark: Some regex libraries can match by unicode character class.
gollark: Can python not pythonously detect unicode class in regices?
gollark: My infrastructure is, fortunately, too poorly organized for any would-be hacker to do anything with it, as that would require understanding it.
gollark: Except automatically, because nobody could ever hackerize my server.
gollark: Exactly.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.