Cisco Milkvetch

Jonesiella sabulosa (M. E. Jones) Rydberg
Astragalus sabulosus M. E. Jones, Zoe 2: 239. 1891.
A cespitose perennial, with a woody rootstock; stems several, 1-3 dm. long, ascending or decumbent, stout, puberulent or strigose; leaves 5-10 cm. long, the rachis densely strigose; stipules deltoid, green, 5-10 mm. long, recurved; leaflets 3-9, elliptic or oblanceolate, or the terminal one rhombic, 1-3 cm. long, acute at each end, ashy-strigose with flat lanceolate hairs; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; racemes 4— 8-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; calyx black-strigose, the tube oblique, about 1 cm. long, the teeth deltoid, about 2 mm. long; corolla white, nearly 2 cm. long; banner elliptic-obovate, abruptly arched; wings much shorter; keel-petals a little shorter, nearly straight, with a triangular obtuse purple tip; pod oblong, short-stipitate, 3-3.5 cm. long, fully 1 cm. wide, cross-reticulate, ashy-strigose, scarcely sulcate, the dorsal suture with a very narrow hyaline partial septum.
Type locality: Cisco, Utah. Distribution: Eastern Utah.

Perennial, Herbs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems hollow, or spongy, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules membranous or chartaceous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 5-9, Leafle ts 10-many, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Flowers in axillary clusters or few-floweredracemes, 2-6 flowers, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals orange or yellow, Banner petal narrow or oblanceolate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel petals auriculate, spurred, or gibbous, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Style persistent in fruit, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit or valves persistent on stem, Fruit fleshy, Fruit coriaceous or becoming woody, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit beaked, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit hairy, Fruit 11-many seeded, Seeds cordiform, mit-shaped, notched at one end, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.