Astragalus anisus

Astragalus anisus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Gunnison milkvetch. It is endemic to Colorado in the United States, where it is limited to the Gunnison Basin of Gunnison and Saguache Counties. This plant is a small perennial herb growing from a woody taproot. The caudex is clothed with the remains of previous seasons' leaves. The leaves are up to 7 centimeters long and are compound, made up of up to 15 leaflets. The herbage is coated in silvery hairs. The pinkish purple flowers occur in May and June. They are up to 2 centimeters long. They are bee-pollinated. The fruit is a rounded legume pod between 1 and 2 centimeters long. It is fleshy, hairy, and green, drying brown. It contains many smooth black seeds. This species grows in sagebrush shrub and shrub-steppe habitat. The land is flat or shaped into rolling hills with clay soils. The elevation is 7000 to 10,000 feet. The plant is mainly found in the lower elevations of this range, in op......read more on Wikipedia.