General: Low perennial herb from a buried stem-base and long, slender rhizomes; stems several, decumbent to erect, 10-30 cm long/tall, loosely tufted, slender, appressed-hairy with unbranched hairs.
Leaves: Alternate, pinnately compound, 4-10 cm long, leaflets 11 to 23, linear-oblong to elliptic, mostly blunt to notched at the tip, 0.5-2 cm long, thinly short-hairy.
Flowers: Inflorescence a dense, head-like, axillary raceme of 7 to 20 erect, pea-like flowers, the racemes 1-3 cm long and wide, on stalks from shorter to longer than the leaves; corollas usually purplish, tinged with white, drying bluish, 15-22 mm long, the narrow banner slightly longer than the wings, which are 4 mm longer than the keel; calyces bell-shaped, 8-13 mm long, hairy with mixed black and white hairs, the linear teeth 1/2 as long as the tube.
Fruits: Pods, egg-shaped to oblong, unstalked, erect, 7-10 mm long, membranous, densely greyish to blackish soft-hairy, somewhat flattened, grooved beneath, 2-chambered.
Moist to mesic meadows, grassy slopes, streambanks, lakeshores, forest openings and occasionally on cool talus slopes in the steppe and montane zones; common in S BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains and S of 52degreeN, rare northward; N to YT, E to ON, and S to WI, MN, KS, NM and N CA.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
BC Ministry of Environment:BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer,
the authoritative source for conservation information in British Columbia.
Synonyms and Alternate Names
Astragalus danicus var. dasyglottis (Fisch. ex DC.) B. Boivin Astragalus dasyglottis Fisch. ex DC. Astragalus goniatus Nutt. Astragalus hypoglottis Hook.
