Astragalus xerophiloides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
The species is native to the temperate biome of eastern Turkey and the Transcaucasus.
Description Astragalus xerophiloides is a perennial. It is similar to Astragalus xerophilus, but has longer petals, stipules, and bracts.
A. xerophiloides are tall, and have well developed stems. The plants are smooth, or they may have white hairs. The leaves are long. The leaflets are in 6-8 pairs, and are narrow and elliptical in shape. Leaflets are long, and wide. The leaflets have white hairs.
The flower stalks are long, and have black and white hairs. The calyx is long, and tube-shaped. The petals are lilac in colour, but fade to yellowish-brown. The legumes have black and white hairs.
Taxonomy A. xerophiloides was described in 2002. The holotype was collected in 1996, in Palandöken, Erzurum, Turkey.
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