Psoralidium junceum (Eastw.) Rydb.

Psoralidium junceum (Eastw.) Rydberg
Psoralea juncea Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 6: 286. 1897.
A perennial, with a rootstock, tufted; stem 6-10 dm. high, with numerous nearly erect virgate branches, sparingly strigose or nearly glabrous, sparingly glandular-dotted, striate; lower leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate; petioles 5-7 cm. long; leaflets oblanceolate, acute at both ends or acuminate at the apex, 3-4 cm. long, those of the stem and branches reduced to small subulate scales, 3-4 mm. long, glandular-dotted and strigose; peduncles 1-1.5 dm. long; racemes 1-3 cm. long, few-flowered; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; bracts minute, ovate, acuminate; pedicels about 1 mm. long; calyx canescent-strigose, 2 mm. long; teeth nearly equal, rounded at the apex; corolla dark-blue, 5 mm. long; banner suborbicular, emarginate; pod ovoid, with a short erect beak, densely silky.
Type locality: Epsom Creek, Southeastern Utah. Distribution: Southern Utah.