Dwarf Milkvetch

Phaca microcystis (A. Gray) Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard 1:245. 1900.
Astragalus microcystis A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 220. , 1864.
Tragacantha microcystis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 946. 1891.
Astragalus miser M. R. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 98. 1923. Not A. miser Dougl. 1S34.
Perennial, with a woody root and cespitose caudcx; stems decumbent or procumbent, branched, 2-3 dm. long, strigose with curved hairs; leaves 4-6 cm. long; lower stipules connate, the upper distinct, 3 mm. long; leaflets 9-13, oblong or lance-elliptic, obtuse or acute, 6-12 mm. long, pilose with ascending curved hairs below, glabrous or nearly so above; peduncles 1-3 cm. long; racemes about as long, 5-15-flowered; calyx appressed-hairy often with black hairs, the tube 1.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 1 mm. long; corolla pink or white, 5 mm. long; banner obovate, deeply notched, abruptly arched, purple-striate; wings much shorter, the blade obliquely oval, rounded; wings still shorter, the blade broadly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod rounded-obovoid, S— 10 mm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, sessile, usually white-pilose with spreading hairs, seeds obliquely round-reniform, 2 mm. long.
Type locality: Interior of Washington. Fort Colville. Distribution: Montana to Washington and British Columbia.