Astragalus mollissimus var. mollissimus

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town. Note color range, fresh flower wings open purplish rose-pink, age blue-purple as they wither

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town. Note color change as fresh flowers age to blue-purple

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town. Note color change as fresh flowers age to blue-purple

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town. Leaves thickly covered with short, soft, matted, white wooly hairs (tomentose) so that leaf surface is hidden. Legumes glabrous or nearly so.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town. NOTE: Legumes glabrous or nearly so.

plants in wide grassy roadside drainage swale in silty calcareous/caliche soils on edge of town. NOTE: Legumes glabrous or nearly so.

drainage swale on grassy highway right of way