Herbs annual or winter-annual, caulescent; root-crown superficial. Hairs basifixed. Stems single or few to several. Stipules distinct. Leaves odd-pinnate, short-petiolate or subsessile; leaflets (9 or)11–15(–19). Racemes loosely flowered, flowers spreading becoming declined. Calyx tubes shallowly campanulate. Corollas bicolored, banner and keel bluish violet or reddish violet, wings pale or white on margins or apex, banner recurved through 40°, keel apex narrowly obtuse, beaklike. Legumes deciduous, sessile, short gynophore present, declined, narrowly to broadly ovoid or triangular-ovoid, 3-sided compressed, straight, bilocular. Seeds 4–6(–8).

Distribution

Texas.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Astragalus reflexus