OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-35-002:

Astragalus canadensis   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Astragalus carolinianus

 

COMMON NAME:
Canada Milkvetch


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image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asca29_001_lvd

        

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_canadensis_14

June        

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

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 (Smith, 1998).

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

Ron Lance    rwl_20180720_103907716

July    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

Ron Lance    rwl_20180720_104315693hdr

July    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

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 (Carman, 2005).

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_canadensis_cana_654

July    Iredell County    NC

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

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 (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

JK Marlow    jkm180828_4250

August    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

JK Marlow    jkm180828_4251b

August    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

Stems glabrous to sparsely strigillose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

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 (Smith, 1998).


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image of Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis, Canada Milkvetch

JK Marlow    jkm180828_4273

August    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-35-002:
Astragalus canadensis   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Astragalus carolinianus

 

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2833

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: forests, woodlands, streambanks, rocky slopes and bluffs, prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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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

 

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