Astragalus miser Dougl.

Tium miserum (Dougl.) Rydberg
Astragalus miser Dougl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 153. 1838.
A perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stems 0.5-1.5 dm. high, ascending, strigose; leaves ascending, 3-7 cm. long; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 9-15, linear or oblong, 3-10 mm. long; 1-2 mm. wide, strigose on both sides; peduncles 6-10 cm. long, slender, strigose; racemes 2-5 cm. long; calyx strigose, partly with black hairs, the tube 3 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous, with purple-tipped keel, 8-10 mm. long; banner obovate, moderately arched; wings shorter, the blade oblong-falcate, with a large basal auricle; keel-petals as long as the wings, the blade broader; pod nearly sessile, the body linear, 1.5-2 cm. long, acute at each end, strigose, sulcate on the lower suture, the septum about 1 mm. broad.
Type locality: Low hills of Spokane River, Washington.
Distribution: Washington to Idaho and Nevada.

Homalobus strigosus (Coult. & Fisher) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 40:53. 1913.
Astragalus strigosus Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 18: 299. 1893. Astragalus griseopubescens Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 24. 1894. Astragalus serotinus strigosus F. Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. 65: 37. 1922.
A perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stems 1.5-3 dm. high, strigose-canescent ; leaves 7-12 cm. long; upper stipules lanceolate, the lower triangular, scarious, connate, 3-4 mm. long; leaflets 13-21, from lance-linear to narrowly linear, 1-3 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, acute at each end, cinereous-strigose on both sides, often somewhat falcate; racemes lax, including the peduncles 1-1.5 dm. long, 10-16-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2-2.5 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla white or ochroleucous or tinged with purple, the keel purpletipped; banner S-10 mm. long, obovate; wings 6-7 mm. long, the blade obliquely oblanceolate, much longer than the claw; blades of keel-petals lunate, 6-8 mm. long, with a lanceolate tip; pod 18-20 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, linear, straight, acute at each end, strigose; seeds broadly reniform-oblong, 2.5 mm. long, fully 1.5 mm. wide.
Type locality: Basin, Montana.
Distribution: Montana to eastern Washington and northern Wyoming.