Silverleaf Milkvetch

Batidophaca sabinarum Rydberg, sp. nov
A cespitose perennial; stems short, decumbent, 4— S cm. long, branched, canescent with ascending hairs; leaves ascending, 5-8 cm. long; stipules ovate, acuminate, about 5 mm. long; leaflets 1 1-17, elliptic, 4-8 mm. long, acute at each end, grayish-pilose on both sides with ascending hairs; peduncles 3-5 em. long; racemes 3-5-flowered; calyx villous, the tube 4 mm. long, with some black hairs, the teeth subulate, 3 mm. long, black-hairy; corolla unknown; pod sessile, lunate, 15-18 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, acute at each end, strigose-canescent, the upper suture acute, concavely curved, the lower strongly convex, usually sulcate at the middle, the cross-section at the middle broadly cordate.
Type collected in Cedar Canon, Iron County, Utah, July 19, 1920, A. 0. Garrett R2660 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).