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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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Baja California Sur, Mexico
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, Sarawak, Malaysia
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The Pinnacles, New South Wales, Australia
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Albany, Western Australia, Australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Singleton, Western Australia, Australia
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Astragalus onobrychis L.DE: Esparsetten Tragant, Esparsetten StragelSlo.: dolgojadrni grahovecDat.: June 27. 2010Lat.: 46.33494 Long.: 13.63622Code: Bot_432/2010_IMG1168Habitat: Larger openings in riparian wood, Picea abies and Salix eleagnos dominant; alluvial, shallow, stony and sandy, calcareous ground; flat terrains; full sun, locally dry place; exposed to direct rain; elevation 425-430 m (1.390-1.410 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and sand.Place: Lower Trenta valley, left bank of river Soa, near confluence with Lepenica stream, east of 'Za otoki' place, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: Astragalus onobrychis is west Asian - east European plant growing in many parts of the Alps, Apennines, Carpathians, Dinaric and south Balkan Peninsula mountains. The warmth loving plant hadn't been known in the alpine and prealpine phytogeographical region of Slovenia until recently. In 2008 it was discovered on an isolated, locally sunny and warm place in Trenta valley at the mouth of Lepena side valley. It is now showing its beautiful violet flowers year after year on more or less the same place. For now this is its only known location in Julian Alps and among the most northern in Slovenia.Ref.:(1) Personal communication with Dr. Igor Dakskobler, Natural History Institute Jovan Hadi, SAZU.(2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 576.(3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 313. (4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 848.
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2011-04-25 Vienna X. district (on Liesing river, 179 msm Quadrant 7864/3).German name: Gewhnlich-GoldregenID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)For ID please also
compare remarks here.Some petals removed to show the typical make-up of a Fabaceae flower.
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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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Western Australia, Australia
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Orpen, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Based on Welsh (2008 and prior), this keys to Lupinus caudatus var. utahensis based on the easily visible calyx spur. Barneby in 1989 however included L. caudatus within L. argenteus, an approach that others have historically suggested might be best. Barneby's L. argenteus var. utahensis is not a syonymn for this taxon (Barneby, also in 1989, indicated that what had been referred to as Lupinus caudatus var. utahensis instead was something intermediate between vars. heteranthus and holosericeus of L. argenteus which as far as I can tell do not occur in the area where this picture was taken). Another possibility is L. argenteus var. fulvomaculatus given the location and elevation. The petals however are not pale blue nor do they appear to contain a brown eye-spot and that is probably normally a much higher elevation taxon. Both taxa have spike-shaped/spiciform inflorescences with very short pedicels. With some reluctance, I am following Welsh's treatment even though it has not changed for some time and he also admits that the L. caudatus varieties are weakly differentiated. Some sites are pointing L. caudatus var. utahensis to L. caudatus ssp. caudatus. Or, just call it a Lupine. Sept. 4, 2011, Abajo Mountains, San Juan County, Utah, at about an elevation of 8,380 ft., open xeric meadow, less than 45 cm tall.
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Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, USA
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Vilaflor, Canary Islands, Spain