Astragalus geyeri var. geyeri

Geyer's milkvetch, Geyer's milk-vetch, Geyer's milk-vetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Geyer's milkvetch is a native annual found in the Modoc Plateau and eastern Sierra Nevada (Owens Valley) in sandy areas at elevations around 1,200 meters. Flowering from April to July, this milkvetch produces white to lilac-blushed flowers with purple-tipped keel petals that are delicately recurved. Growing with prostrate to ascending stems 1 to 20 centimeters long, it appears slender and minutely hairy. Its leaves are 1.5 to 10 centimeters long with 3 to 13 relatively spaced linear to oblong leaflets, with the terminal leaflet typically larger than the others. The fruit is an inflated, half-ovate pod 15 to 25 millimeters long with a triangular beak.

Habitat: Sandy areas

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: +- 1200 m.

Bioregions: MP, SNE (Owens Valley)

California counties: Inyo, Lassen

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