Herbs perennial, forming large clumps, caulescent; caudex superficial or shallowly subterranean. Hairs malpighian. Stems few to several. Stipules connate at proximal nodes, at distal nodes distinct. Leaves odd-pinnate, petiolate or subsessile; leaflets 19–37. Racemes densely flowered, flowers declined. Calyx tubes campanulate. Corollas greenish white, banner and wing apices often purple-suffused, banner recurved through 20–30°, keel apex obtuse. Legumes falling with pedicel, subsessile, deflexed, 3-sided compressed, curved-oblong, bilocular. Seeds 12–14.

Distribution

Introduced; Europe, Asia.

Discussion

Species 1 (1 in the flora).

A close affinity exists between the Old World sect. Euodmus and sect. Uliginosi (R. C. Barneby 1964). D. Podlech and S. Zarre (2013) considered sect. Euodmus to be synonymous with sect. Uliginosi.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Astragalus falcatus