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Table Cliff Milkvetch (Astragalus limnocharis var. tabulaeus)

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Photo by Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; D. Atwood
Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; D. Atwood

Table Cliff Milkvetch

Table Cliff Milkvetch (Astragalus limnocharis var. tabulaeus)

Photo by Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; D. Atwood
Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; D. Atwood

Astragalus limnocharis var. tabulaeus

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2T2
State (S-rank): S2

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Phenology

Flowers from June to August

Species range

A Southern Plateaus endemic, found on Table Cliff Plateau and the Escalante Mountains of Garfield County, Utah. 

Threats or limiting factors

Threats probably low given terrain (maybe from impacts of logging access?) (Alexander 2016). Climate change including drought and earlier than normal snow melt may also be impacting this species.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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