Astragalus funereus M. E. Jones

Xylophacos funereus (M. E. Jones) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 52; 367. 1925. Astragalus funereus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 11. 1908.
A perennial, with a cespitose eaudex; stems many, 3-10 cm. long, white-villous, densely leaf} ; leaves spreading, 4— S cm. long; stipules ovate, about 5 mm. long; leaflets 13-17, obovate, 5-10 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, rounded at the apex, densely white-villous on both sides; peduncles 3-7 cm. long, arched, white-woolly; racemes short, 5— 10-flowered; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long; calyx black-villous, the tube 7-8 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the teeth subulate, 4-5 mm. long; corolla bluish, 2.5-3 cm. long, the tip of the keel dark-blue; banner oval-obovate, slightly arcuate; wings shorter, nearly straight, the blades lance-oblong, with a large basal auricle; keel-petals as long as the wings, the blade oblanceolate, slightly falcate, rounded at the apex; pod inflated, arcuate, densely white-villous, 3 cm. long or more and 1 cm. wide (according to Jones "5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide"), obcompressed.
Type locality: Rhyolite, Nevada.
Distribution: Southern Nevada and southeastern California.