Woodypod Milkvetch

Homalobus podocarpus (Hook.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club
51: 18. 1924.
Phaca podocarpa Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 142. 1831. Not .4 stragalus podocarpus C. A. Meyer. 1831. Astragalus sclerocarpus A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 225. 1864. Tragacantha sderocarpa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 948. 1891.
A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stems branched, canescent-strigose, striate, 3-6 dm. high; stipules triangular, free, 3-4 mm. long; leaves 8-10 cm. long; leaflets 13-19, linear or oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, strigose-canescent, obtuse; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; racemes lax, 5-8 mm. long; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, about equaling the pedicels; calyx strigose, more or less black-hairy, the tube about 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, slightly gibbous above, the teeth lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous; banner 14 mm. long, obovate, with a broad claw; wings 12 mm. long, the blade about equaling the claw, obliquely oblonglanceolate, with a rounded basal auricle; keel-petals about 10 mm. long, the blade shorter than the claw, nearly semicircular; pod strigose, stipitate, the stipe 15-18 mm. long, bent, the body lunate, long-attenuate at both ends, reticulate, coriaceous, with very strong thick sutures; seeds nearly black, obliquely reniform, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad.
Type locality: Great Falls of the Columbia. Washington. Distribution: Washington and northern Oregon.