Astragalus hallii A.Gray var. hallii

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Authority

    Barneby, Rupert C. 1964. Atlas of North American Astragalus. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13(1): 1-596.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Astragalus hallii A.Gray var. hallii

  • Type

    "Valleys of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado Territory, lat. 39-41°, coll. Hall & Harbour, no. 121."—Holotypus, GH! isotypi, G, K, MO, NY, OXF, P, PH, US!

  • Synonyms

    Tragacantha hallii (A.Gray) Kuntze, Astragalus gracilentus var. hallii (A.Gray) M.E.Jones, Homalobus hallii (A.Gray) Rydb., Pisophaca hallii (A.Gray) Rydb., Astragalus shearii Rydb., Atelophragma shearii (Rydb.) Rydb.

  • Description

    Variety Description - Herbage commonly green, thinly pubescent, subcanescently so in arid sites, the stems glabrous or nearly so toward the base; stems decumbent or prostrate with ascending tips, mature plants forming, broad, low clumps; leaflets (13) 19-27 (31); peduncles commonly prostrate in fruit, the pods therefore humistrate and variably oriented, ascending, spreading, or declined; petals purple or reddish- violet, with paler claws and pale, striate eye in the banner; pod stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm. long (concealed by the calyx), the body narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, or widest above the middle and thus subclavately ellipsoid, straight or a trifle incurved, (12) 13-24 (27) mm. long, (3) 4-7 (8.5) mm. in diameter, cuneate or attenuate at base, abruptly cuspidate-beaked, a little obcompressed, either rounded or shallowly and openly grooved dorsally, the ventral suture thick and prominent, the valves becoming rather stiffly papery, stramineous or brownish, glabrous or strigulose with scattered white or rarely fuscous hairs up to 0.2—0.3 mm. long; ovules 20-30.

    Distribution and Ecology - Dry hillsides, gravelly clay flats, mountain meadows, nearly always among sagebrush, 7650-10,000 feet, widely dispersed and rather common in the valleys and parks of the Colorado Rocky Mountains about the headwaters of the Grand, Gunnison, Dolores and South Platte Rivers and the Rio Grande, extending south to both slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Taos and Colfax Counties, New Mexico.—Map No. 18.—June to September.

  • Objects

    Specimen - 01250060, I. W. Clokey 3550, Astragalus hallii A.Gray var. hallii, Fabaceae (152.0), Magnoliophyta; North America, United States of America, Colorado, Lake Co.

    Specimen - 01250059, C. F. Baker 376, Astragalus hallii A.Gray var. hallii, Fabaceae (152.0), Magnoliophyta; North America, United States of America, Colorado

    Specimen - 01250061, H. D. D. Ripley 7197, Astragalus hallii A.Gray var. hallii, Fabaceae (152.0), Magnoliophyta; North America, United States of America, Colorado, Gunnison Co.

    Specimen - 01250062, H. D. D. Ripley 10417, Astragalus hallii A.Gray var. hallii, Fabaceae (152.0), Magnoliophyta; North America, United States of America, Colorado, Park Co.

  • Distribution

    Colorado United States of America North America| New Mexico United States of America North America|