10-17 mm long narrowly elliptic, 1 - 5 mm yp long, 0.5 - 1 mm wide, strigose on both sides Pods bladdery inflated, mottled, j vw Leaflets 9 - 15, linear to Flowers pink purple, 5 - 6.5 mm long Leaf stalks stiff, rigid, persisting after leaflets are shed Acaulescent perennial 1-5cm tall, stems obscured by stipules and leaf bases UL by Kaye H. Thome ASTRAGALUS JEJUNUS VAR. JEJUNUS Scientific name: Astragalus jejunus Wats. var. jejunus (common name) Starveling milkvetch Family: Fabaceae (common name) Pea family Synonyms: Tragacantha jejuna (Wats.) Kuntze; Phaca jejuna (Wats.) Rydb. Global Distribution: Rich County, Utah, and Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming Land Ownership: BLM - Salt Lake Field Office, and private Habitat: Sagebrush and sagebrush-juniper communities, often on windswept ridgetops at 6,000 to 7,000 feet elevation, May - July. Comments: This is a dwarf species less than 6 cm tall, with minute flowers 6.5 mm long or less, and bladdery-inflated pods. It resembles A. limnocharis, but has smaller flowers, and leaflets that are strigose on both sides rather than glabrous above.Astragalus jejunus vat. jejunus “4 7 oe Closeup (C. Delmatier) — Species Distribution