Single Record

PhotoRecords: YES Elliot Gordon: Saguache Co, along Kelly Creek trail, 11 km northwest of Villa Grove, 27 Aug 2023; Katherine Zybko: Alamosa Co, Great Sand Dunes NPP, 29 uly 2023

Comments: In the Watershed this milkvetch, uncommon in Colorado, has been vouchered from two widely dispersed vegetative and geographical zones: in the Upper Basin (around San Luis Lakes, Baca NWR and near the west edge of the Great Sand Dunes NM); and in La Garitas (around Creede and Moon Pass). Both locations fall within the elevation range given by Ackerfield. A recent occurrence of Astragalus bodinii lay along Kelly Creek in the south Sawatch mountains northwest of Villa Grove (Elliott Gordon, Aug 2023, iNaturalist observation #189580644). The flower's concentrated distribution is in Wyoming. BONAP shows some counties in northern New Mexico, but Allred et al. (2020) do not indicate the species in the state. A. bodinii is distinguished by its long, sprawling, prostrate stems, and leaves that are glabrate above and with basifixed hairs below.