Astragalus orcuttianus S. Watson

Tium orcuttianum (S. Wats.) Rydberg
Astragalus Orcuttianus S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 361. 1885.
Astragalus Orcuttianus Gregorianus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 63. 1902.
A cespitose perennial, with a short woody caudex; stems several, branched, decumbent at the base, about 3 dm. long; leaves ascending, 5-12 cm. long; stipules deltoid, recurved, about 2 mm. long; leaflets 17-25, suborbicular or broadly obovate, rounded to retuse at the apex, 3-7 mm. long, thin, sparingly strigose or in age glabrate; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; bracts subulate, 1 mm. long; pedicels 2-4 mm. long; calyx glabrate, the tube 2 mm. long, oblique, the teeth 1 mm. long, deltoid ; corolla about 7 mm. long, pink ; banner obovate, strongly arcuate ; wings much shorter, the blade oblong, falcate; keel-petals short, abruptly arched above, acute; pod oblong, equally arched, acute at each end, short-stipitate, 15-18 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, and 3 mm. thick, glabrous, widely sulcate on the lower suture, nearly 2-celled, except at the tip, the upper suture sharp.
Type locality: Camillas Canon, Lower California.
Distribution: Lower California and southern California.