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Naturita Milkvetch (Astragalus naturitensis)

Global Rank: G3 - Vulnerable
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Fabaceae
State: CO, NM, UT
Nature Serve ID: 133556
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

A low, tuft-forming perennial herb, about 1 dm tall, growing from a basal rosette of leaves. Flowers (April-May) have white upper petals and red-purple lower petals. The plants are often only vegetative, and have extremely small pinnate leaves with tiny gray-green leaflets that tend to fold in half, showing their lighter-colored undersides. The pods are red-mottled, firm-walled, and dorsiventrally compressed. (NatureServe, accessed 2013)

Where is Naturita Milkvetch (Astragalus naturitensis) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Cracks and ledges of sandstone cliffs and flat bedrock area with some shallow soil development, within pinyon-juniper woodland. 1650-2050 m. (NatureServe, accessed 2013)

Distribution:

Known from New Mexico, Utah, the Navajo Nation and Colorado (Garfield, Mesa, Montezuma, Montrose and San Miguel counties). (NatureServe, accessed 2013)

States & Provinces:

Naturita Milkvetch can be found in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah

Which CPC Partners conserve Naturita Milkvetch (Astragalus naturitensis)?

Denver Botanic Gardens

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

08/26/2020

Denver Botanic Garden has done annual demographic monitoring since 1995.

08/26/2020

DBG has collected seed of this species and stored them at NCGRP in Fort Collins.

08/26/2020

DBG has collected seed of this species and stored them at NCGRP in Fort Collins.

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Known from Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah in the Four Corners area. Between 40 and 50 extant occurrences and about half of those sites are in good condition with healthy population numbers. Primary threats energy development and recreation. Plants are thought to respond positively to some disturbance. There are a number of historic occurrences that should be surveyed to determine if habitat, or plants, are still present.?

Payson

01/01/2010

Uranium claims, housing, crop/farming area. Plant seems to tolerate and even thrive on some disturbance. (NatureServe, accessed 2013)

Payson

01/01/2010

There are 35 principal occurrences documented in the Colorado Natural Heritage Program data system. 10 of the 35 occurrences have not been observed in over twenty years.

Payson

01/01/2010

Denver Botanic Garden has done annual demographic monitoring since 1995.

Payson

01/01/2010

On BLM Sensitive species list

Payson

01/01/2010

Unknown

Payson

01/01/2010

DBG has collected seed of this species and stored them at NCGRP in Fort Collins.