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Astragalus vaccarum
A. Gray
Family:
Fabaceae
Cow Spring Milk-Vetch,
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Cow Spring milkvetch
© 2012 Richard Spellenberg
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Plant
: Prostrate to erect perennial forb 20-40 cm
Leaves
: leaves compound, alternate; leaflets >15, hairy underneath, glabrous above, 8-15 mm long
Flowers
: flowers purple, in dense racemes, ~5mm long; pods deflexed, 6-12 mm long, with cusp-like beak.
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