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Astragalus nevinii
Also called San Clemente Island Milk Vetch
Astragalus nevinii is a rare species of milkvetch known by the common name San Clemente Island milkvetch. It is endemic to San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands of California. This is perennial herb growing upright 10 to 30 centimetres (4 to 12 in) tall. It is coated in woolly, tangled hairs. Its leaves are up to 8 centimetres (3+1⁄6 in) long and are made up of many oblong leaflets. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of up to 30 cream-colored flowers, each around 1 centimetre (5⁄12 in) in length. The fruit is a hanging legume pod up to 2 centimetres (3⁄4 in) long which is papery in texture and mostly hairless.
Astragalus aboriginum · Rogue River milkvetch · Sharp-leaved Milk Vetch · Sharpkeel milkvetch · Humboldt County milkvetch · Purple milkvetch · Cushenbury milkvetch · Astragalus alopecurus · Alpine milkvetch · Crescent milkvetch · Hermit Milkvetch · Anderson's milkvetch
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Astragalus nevinii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
