This plant, one of the rarest in Oregon, is truly endangered. It is known to exist only in one or two sites in Klamath County in southern Oregon. It is not known to exist in adjacent California. Its best population is found in an expanding industrial area of Klamath Falls. Its habitat is moist meadows.
Astragalus applegateii is a slender perennial, often decumbent, with stems to sixteen inches long, which have seven to eleven narrow, slightly strigose leaflettes. The flowers, whitish to lilac in color, are small with petals only one-fourth of an inch long; the seed pods, up to one-half of an inch long, are spreading to decliningm straight, and faintly mottled. It blooms from June to early August.
This page last modified: August 8, 1995.
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