Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Homalobus canovirens Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mts ed. 2. 1126. 1922.
Astragalus Coltoni moabensis M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 8: 11. 1898.
A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stem 3-5 dm. high, grayish-strigose and angled; leaves 4-6 cm. long; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 7-15, linear or linear-oblong, strigose on both sides, 5-12 mm. long, obtuse; peduncles 5-15 cm. long, strigose; racemes 5 cm. long or less, 5-10-flowered; bracts subulate, 1 mm. long or less; calyx black-hairy, the tube 4 mm. long, the teeth 1 mm. long, subulate; corolla dark bluish-purple with yellowish claws; banner obovate, nearly 1.5 cm. long; wings with a large basal auricle; keel-petals rounded at the apex; pod glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1 cm. long or less, the body oblong, 2-2.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide ; seeds obliquely reniform, 3 mm. long, fully 2 mm. wide.
Type locality: Western slope of La Sal Mountains, Utah.
Distribution: Southeastern Utah, northwestern New Mexico, and western Colorado.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
