Belongs within: Astragaleae.
Contains: Astragalus lentiginosus.
Astragalus, the milk-vetches, is an extremely large genus (about 3000 species) of legumes found in Eurasia and the Americas. The name of the genus refers to the Greek for ankle bone or dice and may be a reference to the sound of seeds rattling in dry pods (Hickman 1993). Some North American species are known as locoweeds because of their toxic effects on livestock.
Characters (from Xu & Podlech): Annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs, often sometimes spiny, glabrous or hairy; hairs basifixed or symmetrically or asymmetrically bifurcate, white or black, at margins of stipules and bracts often with minute subsessile glands. Leaves paripinnate or imparipinnate or leaflets rarely verticillate; stipules green or membranous, adnate to petiole or free, often vaginate-connate behind stem. Racemes axillary, sessile or pedunculate, loosely or densely few to many flowered. Flowers subsessile or with a distinct pedicel; bracteoles sometimes present. Calyx campanulate to tubular, with 5 equal or unequal teeth mostly hairy on inner side, sometimes inflated in fruit. Petals glabrous or more rarely hairy; standard mostly emarginate at apex, more rarely rounded, mostly with a ± distinct claw; wings auriculate at limb base. Stamens diadelphous, rarely monadelphous, with uniform anthers. Ovary sessile or stipitate; style below or at capitate stigma rarely hairy or penicillate. Legumes very variable, mostly keeled ventrally and grooved dorsally, 1-locular, incompletely or completely 2-locular; walls membranous, leathery or rarely hard and legumes then nutlike. Seeds rectangular-reniform, estrophiolate.
<==Astragalus
|--A. (subg. Phaca sect. Malacothrix) pseudo-beckii Sirj. & Rech. f. 1958 CK05
`--A. subg. Pogonophace sect. Falcinellus CK05
|--A. bakaliensis Bunge 1847 CK05
|--A. scorpiurus CK05
`--A. subumbellatus CK05
Astragalus incertae sedis:
A. accidens H93
|--A. a. var. accidens H93
`--A. a. var. hendersonii H93
A. acutirostris H93
A. adsurgens CL86
A. agnicidus H93
A. agrestis H93
A. albens H93
A. allochrous H93
|--A. a. var. allochrous H93
`--A. a. var. playanus [incl. A. wootoni] H93
A. alpinus D00
A. andersonii H93
A. angustifolious SL06
A. annularis D00
A. anxius H93
A. argophyllus H93
A. aridus H93
A. asymmetricus H93
A. atratus H93
|--A. a. var. atratus H93
`--A. a. var. mensanus H93
A. austiniae H93
A. bernardianus H93
A. bicristatus H93
A. bisulcatus H98
A. bolanderi H93
A. brauntonii H93
A. brevicaulis D03
A. breweri H93
A. californicus H93
A. calycosus H93
A. campestris D00
A. canadensis CP13
|--A. c. var. canadensis H93
`--A. c. var. brevidens H93
A. candolleanus O88
A. casei H93
A. cimae H93
|--A. c. var. cimae H93
`--A. c. var. sufflatus H93
A. clarianus H93
A. clevelandii H93
A. coccineus H93
A. confertus O88
A. congdonii H93
A. corrugatus AGF98
A. creticus D00
A. crotalariae H93
A. curtipes H93
A. curvicarpus H93
A. deanei H93
A. deflexus D00
A. depressus C55
A. didymocarpus H93
|--A. d. var. didymocarpus [incl. A. didymocarpus var. daleoides] H93
|--A. d. var. dispermus H93
|--A. d. var. milesianus H93
`--A. d. var. obispoensis H93
A. donianus O88
A. douglasii H93
|--A. d. var. douglasii H93
|--A. d. var. parishii H93
`--A. d. var. perstrictus H93
A. echinoides D00
A. ertterae H93
A. exscapus C55
A. filipes H93
A. floridus O88
A. foetidus D00
A. frigidus O88
A. funereus [=A. purshii var funereus] H93
A. gambelianus [incl. A. gambelianus var. elmeri] H93
A. geyeri H93
A. gibbsii H93
A. gilmanii H93
A. grayi CL86
A. gummifer D00
A. hamosus PT98
A. himalayanus O88
A. hornii H93
A. insularis H93
|--A. i. var. insularis H93
`--A. i. var. harwoodii H93
A. inversus H93
A. inyoensis H93
A. iodanthus H93
A. jaegerianus H93
A. johannis-howellii H93
A. kentrophyta H93
|--A. k. var. kentrophyta H93
|--A. k. var. danaus H93
|--A. k. var. elatus H93
`--A. k. var. tegetarius [incl. A. kentrophyta var. implexus] H93
A. layneae H93
A. lemmonii H93
A. lentiformis H93
A. lentiginosus H93
A. lessertioides O88
A. leucolobus H93
A. macrodon H93
A. magdalenae H93
|--A. m. var. magdalenae H93
`--A. m. var. peirsonii H93
A. malacus H93
A. melanostachys O88
A. miguelensis H93
A. minthorniae H93
|--A. m. var. minthorniae H93
`--A. m. var. villosus H93
A. mojavensis H93
|--A. m. var. mojavensis H93
`--A. m. var. hemigyrus H93
A. monoensis KIW98
A. montanus D00
‘Phaca’ muricata D00
‘Phaca’ myriophylla D00
A. nevinii H93
A. newberryi H93
A. nutans H93
A. nuttallianus H93
|--A. n. var. nuttallianus H93
|--A. n. var. austrinus H93
|--A. n. var. cedrosensis H93
`--A. n. var. imperfectus H93
A. nuttallii H93
|--A. n. var. nuttallii H93
`--A. n. var. virgatus H93
A. obscurus H93
A. oocarpus H93
A. oophorous H93
|--A. o. var. oophorous H93
`--A. o. var. lavinii H93
A. oplites O88
‘Phaca’ oxyphylla D00
A. oxyphysus H93
A. pachypus H93
|--A. p. var. pachypus H93
`--A. p. var. jaegeri H93
A. palmeri [incl. A. vaseyi] H93
A. panamintensis H93
A. pauperculus H93
A. pilosus D00
A. platytropis H93
A. pomonensis H93
A. praelongus G05
A. preussii H93
|--A. p. var. preussii H93
`--A. p. var. laxiflorus H93
‘Phaca’ prostrata D00
A. pseudodianthus [=A. iodanthus var. pseudodianthus] H93
A. pulsiferae H93
|--A. p. var. pulsiferae H93
`--A. p. var. suksdorfii H93
A. purshii H93
|--A. p. var. purshii H93
|--A. p. var. lagopinus H93
|--A. p. var. lectulus H93
`--A. p. var. tinctus [incl. A. purshii var. longilobus] H93
A. pycnostachyus H93
|--A. p. var. pycnostachyus H93
`--A. p. var. lanosissimus H93
A. rattanii H93
|--A. r. var. rattanii H93
`--A. r. var. jepsonianus H93
A. ravenii [=A. monoensis var. ravenii] H93
A. rigidulus O88
A. sabulonum H93
A. sepultipes H93
A. serenoi H93
|--A. s. var. serenoi H93
`--A. s. var. shockleyi H93
A. shevockii H93
‘Phaca’ sibirica D00
A. spatulatus CL86
A. strictus O88
A. subvestitus H93
‘Phaca’ sylvatica D00
A. tener H93
|--A. t. var. tener H93
|--A. t. var. ferrisiae H93
`--A. t. var. titi H93
A. tephrodes H93
|--A. t. var. tephrodes H93
`--A. t. var. brachylobus H93
A. thurberi G05
A. tidestromii H93
A. traskiae H93
A. tricarinatus H93
A. trichopodus H93
|--A. t. var. trichopodus H93
|--A. t. var. lonchus [incl. A. leucopsis] H93
`--A. t. var. phoxus [incl. A. antiselli] H93
A. umbraticus H93
A. verticillaris D00
A. vulpinus YS10
A. webberi H93
A. whitneyi H93
|--A. w. var. whitneyi H93
|--A. w. var. confusus H93
|--A. w. var. lenophyllus H93
`--A. w. var. siskiyouensis H93
A. yunnanensis O88
*Type species of generic name indicated
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