Lesser Rushy Milkvetch

Homalobus junciformis (A. Nelson) Rydb. Bull Torrey Club 32:666. 1906.
Astragalus junciformis A. Nelson, Bull Torrey Club 26: 9. 1899.
A perennial, with a rootstock, usually branching below ground; stem cinereous-strigose, 2-4 dm. high, striate or angled; leaves 4-7 cm. long, with 5-9 leaflets, or the upper reduced to the mere rachis; stipules triangular, 2-3 mm. long, scarious, the lower connate; lateral leaflets linear or oblong, 5-15 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, strigose, the terminal one similar or often wanting and represented by the prolonged rachis; racemes lax, together with the peduncle 8-15 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; calyx strigose, more or less black-hairy, the tube 4 mm. long, the teeth 0.6 mm. long, broadly deltoid; corolla ochroleucous, 10 mm. long, the petals similar to those of H. campeslris; pod strigose, linear, 3 cm. long.
Type locality: Point of Rocks, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Distribution: Southern Wyoming and northeastern Utah.