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Chestnut milkvetch
Astragalus castaneiformis
NatureServe conservation status
Global (G-rank): G3G4
State (S-rank): S1
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Species range
Only known from one location in Utah.
Gentle slopes and flats in ponderosa pine forest, descending more rarely into oak woodland or sagebrush and juniper in dry stony soils of basaltic or rarely calcareous origin, (1800) 1980 at 2440 m, on Buckskin Mt., growing on Kaibab Limestone, Kane Co., (N. D. Atwood, S. L. Welsh, G. Moore 25351, 30 Apr 2000, BRY!); and on the Kaibab and Mogollon Plateaus, Coconino Co., and extending feebly se. to the Natanes Plateau, Gila Co., Ariz. (Welsh et a. 2015).
