Stems decumbent or weakly ascending, 13–30 cm. Leaves 3.5–8 cm; leaflets 9–17, blades 7–22 mm, surfaces cinereous abaxially (sparsely pubescent along margins adaxially or strigulose), hairs subap­pressed to ascending, to 0.4–0.7 mm. Peduncles 4–10.5 cm. Racemes 7–20-flowered; axis 1.2–6(–8) cm in fruit. Flowers 9–10 mm; corolla purplish or grayish lilac. Legumes 10–18 × 4–5.5(–6) mm, densely or loosely strigose-pilosulous, hairs black, white, or mixed; septum 0.2–0.8 mm wide; stipe 1.2–3 mm. Seeds 8–10. 2n = 32.

Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Limestone or calcareous sand­stone terraces and bluffs, near coast.
Elevation: 0–150 m.

Distribution

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Nfld. and Labr., Que.

Discussion

Morphological and molecular evidence indicates that this variety should be included within Astragalus eucosmus (P. C. Sokoloff 2010; Sokoloff and L. J. Gillespie 2012).

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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