W87 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN SWEETVETCH 



Hedy'sarum pabula're 



Flowers lilac to purple, 'about % in. long, not 

 drooping, pea-like; each with a small bract at 

 base; borne in erect clusters (racemes) on stalks 

 arising from the leaf axils and longer than the 

 leaves 



Stems several, somewhat spreading at base, 

 branched, leafy, somewhat ashen-hairy 



Leaves 'compound with 9 to 15 leaflets, all 

 but the end leaflet being in pairs 



^ Outer united flower parts (calyx) tubular, ft 

 Jr in. long, hairy, 5-toothed ; teeth tapering-pointed, 

 slightly longer than united portion (tube) 



Bracts (stipules) at base of leaf, 2, opposite, 

 leaflike, thin, brownish, more or less united- 



Pod (loinent) flattened, finely hairy, 2- to 5- 

 jointed; joints somewhat rounded in outline, 

 Yt in. broad, 1 -seeded, separating at the constric- 

 tions but not splitting open, with conspicuous 

 veins running crosswise from edge to edge (not 

 net-veined) 



Leaflets silvery green/gland-dotted, elliptic or 

 narrowly to broadly oblong, up to 1 in. long, 

 hairless or nearly so above, white-hairy beneath, 

 without bractlets (stipels) at base 



