Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Milkvetch from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-35-002:
Astragalus canadensis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Canada Milkvetch
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asca29_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_canadensis_14
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_canadensis_14b
June
Flowers yellowish-white, 1/2" long, and slender (the standard is narrow), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Ron Lance rwl_20180720_103907716
July Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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July Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_a_canadensis_cana_648
July Iredell County NC
Pods are numerous, crowded, erect, from 0.4-0.6" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_a_canadensis_cana_654
July Iredell County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_a_canadensis_cana_661
July Iredell County NC
The somewhat reflexed flowers are in long-peduncled axillary racemes, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition.
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JK Marlow jkm180828_4250
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm180828_4251b
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
Stems glabrous to sparsely strigillose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm180828_4253
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
The 15-31 leaflets are oblong and up to 2" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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JK Marlow jkm180828_4273
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-35-002:
Astragalus canadensis
FAMILY
Fabaceae
2833
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: forests, woodlands, streambanks, rocky slopes and bluffs, prairies, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: (7)13-31 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Leaves are subtended by stipules.
FLOWER:
Summer
Greenish-white/ Creamy-yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate-to-cylindric calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, usually diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p055
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p130
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p126
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p163
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p087