Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Fabaceae/Fabacées - Legume Family
Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob.
En: elegant milkvetch, pretty milkvetch
Fr: astragale élégant
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Arctic-alpine NA (disj.); S to n/seLab., w/nw/ne/cNfld.; calc.

[=Astragalus curtiflorus (Rydb.) M.E.Jones]
[=Astragalus elegans Bunge]
[=Astragalus elegans (Hook.) E.Sheld. 1894, nom. illeg. hom., non Bunge 1868]
[=Astragalus elegans (Hook.) E.Sheld. var. curtiflorus Rydb.]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. forma albinus Fernald & Walter (type: HaHa Bay, nwNfld.)]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. forma cespitosus J.Rousseau (type: Bay of Islands, wNfld.)]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. forma villosus J.Rousseau (type: HaHa (Raleigh), nwNfld.)]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. subsp. eucosmus]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. subsp. sealei (Lepage) Hultén]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. var. eucosmus]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. var. facinorum Fernald (type: Exploits R., cNfld.)]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. var. fernaldii (Rydb.) B.Boivin]
[=Astragalus eucosmus B.L.Rob. var. terrae-novae J.Rousseau (type: Pistolet Bay, nwNfld.)]
[=Astragalus fernaldii (Rydb.) H.F.Lewis]
[=Astragalus minor (Hook.) M.E.Jones var. curtiflorus (Rydb.) M.E.Jones]
[=Astragalus oroboides A.Gray var. americanus A.Gray]
[=Astragalus robbinsii (Oakes) A.Gray var. fernaldii (Rydb.) Barneby]
[=Astragalus sealei Lepage]
[=Atelophragma atratum Rydb.]
[=Atelophragma elegans (Hook.) Rydb.]
[=Atelophragma fernaldii Rydb. (type: Blanc Sablon, QC.)]
[=Phaca elegans Hook.]
[=Phaca parviflora Nutt.]
[=Tragacantha elegans (Bunge) Kuntze]

[Astragalus eucosmus is found in calcareous sites in w/nw/neNfld. (Bouchard et al. 1991). There is one known location in nLab. for Astragalus eucosmus (S.LWelsh, pers. comm., 1999), as well as locations from seLab. Astragalus robbinsii var. fernaldii (Rydb.) B.Boivin, was included in the previous checklist (Meades et al. 2000) and reported as endemic to nwNfld. and seLabrador. However, recent research by Sokoloff (2010) and Sokoloff & Gillespie (2012) have shown that specimens of A. robbinsii var. fernaldii consist of misidentified collections of Astragalus eucosmus (from seLabrador) and A. robbinsii var. minor (from nwNfld.). It is interesting to note that the type specimen of Atelophragma fernaldii, designated in 1929 by Rydberg, was a 1910 collection from Blanc Sablon, Québec, by M.L. Fernald, which Fernald had identified as Astragalus eucosmus (Sokoloff 2010). Based on Sokoloff & Gillespie's work, Astragalus robbinsii var. fernaldii has been reduced to synonymy under Astragalus eucosmus.]

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