. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . -foliolate. the leaflets very narrow H. caespitosus. I. Homalobus tenellus (Pursh ) Britton. Loose- flowered Milk Vetch. Fig. 2556. Astragalus tenellus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 473. 1814. Ervum multiflorum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 739. 1814. Homalobus mulliflorus T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 351. 1838. A. mulliflorus A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 226. 1864. H. stipitatus Rydb. Bull. Torr.


. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . -foliolate. the leaflets very narrow H. caespitosus. I. Homalobus tenellus (Pursh ) Britton. Loose- flowered Milk Vetch. Fig. 2556. Astragalus tenellus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 473. 1814. Ervum multiflorum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 739. 1814. Homalobus mulliflorus T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 351. 1838. A. mulliflorus A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 226. 1864. H. stipitatus Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 34; 419. 1907. Ascending or diffuse, slender, branched, finely pubes- cent, or glabrate, io'-i8' high. Stipules broadly ovate, ii"-3" long, acute or obtuse, the upper ones connate; leaflets 9-23, thin, oblong, linear-oblong or oblanceo- late, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, 6"-lo" long; flowers yellowish-white, 3"-4" long, in loose spike-like racemes; pod stalked, straight, oblong, acute at each end, papery, glabrous, 6"-8' long, 2" wide. Dry soil, Minnesota to Nebraska, Colorado, north to Sas- katchewan and British Columbia. May-Aug.


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