title: Astragalus praelongus
text: # Astragalus praelongus
  
  Astragalus praelongus (stinking milkvetch) is a perennial plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of the southwestern United $States.^{:43}$ It's fleshy seedpods become woody with $age.^{:43}$ It grows in soils containing $selenium.^{:43}$
  
  A. praelongus var. ellisiae was named for Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis, who collected the holotype specimen in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico near where she lived.
  
  