Phaca stragala

Phaca stragala (Fernald) Rydberg
Astragalus stragalus Fernald, Rhodora 28: 214. 1926.
Perennial; stems many, slender, creeping, forming mats 3-4 dm. in diameter, glabrous or sparsely strigose; stipules lance-oblong, 2-4 mm. long; leaves spreading, 2-6 cm. long, strigose; leaflets 9-19, oval or elliptic, retuse, 2-10 mm. long, 1-5 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides or strigose beneath; peduncles 1-5 cm. long; racemes short, 1-10-flowered; bracts scarious, lanceolate; calyx blaek-strigose, the tube 2.5-3 mm. long, the teeth lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long; corolla purple, 8-12 mm. long; banner rounded-obovate, retuse; wings much shorter, the blade narrowly obovate, with an oblong basal auricle; keel-petals as long, the blade lunate, equaling the claw; pod oblong-ellipsoid, 6-8 mm. long, 2.5-4 mm. wide, black-hairy; seeds 5-8, olivebrown, about 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Cook Point, Pistolet Bay, Newfoundland. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.