Astragalus alpinus subsp. brunetianus (Fern.) Hulten

Atelophragma labradoricum (DC.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 55: 131. 1928.
Astragalus secundus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 66. 1803. Not .4. secundus DC. 1802.
Astragalus labradoricus DC. Prodr. 2: 287. 1825.
Astragalus alpinus Brunetianus Fernald, Rhodora 10: 51. 1908.
A perennial, with a creeping cespitose rootstock; stems 2-5 dm. high, decumbent at the base, striate, glabrous or nearly so; leaves 7-15 cm. long; stipules deltoid or lanceolate, green, 4-6 cm. long; leaflets 15-29, oblong, obtuse or acute, 8-20 mm. long, 2-10 mm. wide, sparingly appressed-pilose, or glabrate above; peduncles about 1 dm. long; racemes dense, 1—4 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 2 mm. long; pedicels about 1 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 2 mm. long, the teeth lanceolate, fully 1 mm. long; corolla lilac, 10-12 mm. long; banner broadly obovate, retuse, strongly arched at the middle; wings shorter, the blade oblong, slightly falcate, with a long reflexed auricle ; keel-petals longer than the wings, the blade obliquely lunate, broader and more curved towards the obtuse purple apex; pods sparingly strigulose with black hairs or black and white hairs mixed, otherwise greenish, the stipe 4 mm. long, the body lance-oblong, straight or slightly concave on the upper suture, acute at each end, 12-15 mm. long, sulcate on the lower suture, the septum fully 0.5 mm. wide; seeds 4, obliquely reniform, 2.5 mm. long, light-brown.
Type locality: Labrador.
Distribution: Labrador to Newfoundland. New Hampshire, and Quebec.