Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Homalobus paucijugus Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 34: 418. 1907
Astragalus Garreltii F. Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. 65: 36. 1922.
A perennial, with a cespitose caudex, bushy; stems 1-2 dm. high, sparingly strigose; leaves numerous, 5-10 cm. long; stipules scarious, ovate, 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 1-5, the lateral ones lanceolate to linear-subulate, 1 cm. or less long, glabrous above, sparingly strigose beneath, sometimes lacking, the terminal one 1-2 cm. long, linear or linear-oblanceolate, gradually tapering into the rachis; peduncles 3-6 cm. long; racemes short, 3-6-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 2 mm. long; calyx strigose with black hairs, the tube about 2 mm. long, the teeth subulate, fully 1 mm. long; corolla as in//, microcarpus; legume 12-15 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, straight, strigose, acute at each end; seeds olive-brown, 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad.
Type locality: Big Cottonwood Canon, Utah. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
