Astragalus wardii A. Gray

Phaca wardii (A. Gray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 40; 47. 1913
Astragalus Wardii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 55. 1877.
Perennial, with a short woody caudex; stems erect or decumbent at the base, glabrous, 2-4 dm. high, straw-colored; leaves ascending, 6-10 cm. long; stipules deltoid, distinct or nearly so, about 2 mm. long, glabrous; leaflets 13-21, oblong or linear-oblong, 6-10 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, obtuse, truncate, or slightly retuse, glabrous; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; racemes 5-15-flowered, 2-5 cm. long; calyx slightly pubescent, the tube campanulate, 5 mm. long, the teeth subulate, fully 1 mm. long; corolla white or straw-colored, 6-7 mm. long; banner with an obovate retuse blade, reflexed; wings nearly as long as the banner, the blade oblong, twice as long as the claw, with an acute basal auricle; keel-petals much shortei, rounded at the apex; pod sessile, mottled, glabrous, 2-2.5 cm. long, 12-15 mm. wide; seeds brown, obliquely reniform, fully 2 mm. long and more than 1.5 mm. wide.
Type locality: Sevier County, Utah, on the edge of Aquarius Plateau.
Distribution: Utah.