RHH's photos with the keyword: astragalus

This is another wildflower from Joshua Tree National Park, Freckled Milkvetch, a palnt with very unusual seedpods (see insets). These were found along the road to the Wall Street Mill trailhead.

These are the seedpods of the Freckled Milkvetch, a very unusual plant we found along the Braker Dam Road in Joshua Tree National Park. The pods are hollow and the seeds rattle inside.

These unusual seedpods, hollow with the seeds rattling inside of them, belong to the Freckled Milkvetch, an unusual plant we found in Joshua Tree National Park along the Barker Dam Road.

On our recent hike we found a few plants of this wildflower, one we had not seen before. Known as Woolly-pod Locoweed, Woolly-pod Milkvetch or Pursh's Woolly-pod, Astragalus purshii grows only in the dry Juniper and Sagebrush areas. It is a low-growing, mat-forming plant with small flowers. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/ancient-lak...

Another photo of this unusual mat-forming species. We found only a few plants new Dusty Lake when hiking there and were pleased to find it since it is one we hadn't seen before. The photo was taken by my wife. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/ancient-lak...