| Oxytropis sericea Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Oxytropis spicata (Hook.) Standl., Oxytropis campestris var. spicata Hook. | ||
| Description | Caespitose from thick root and branching caudex, densely covered with persistent stipules; leaves with 11-19 ovate, elliptic to lanceolate leaflets, silky-pilose on both sides; stipules with deltoid to deltoid-acuminate free blades, pilose to nearly tomen- tose dorsally; racemes 6-25-flowered, often becoming elongated in age; calyx with unequal teeth; petals yellow, sometimes white, lilac-tinged or purple; pod sessile, oblong to ovoid, densely silky-strigose. | ||
| Ecology | Dry hillsides. Described from the Rocky Mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Yukon specimens belong to the yellow-flowered var. spicata (Hook.) Barneby (O. campestris var. spicata Hook.). |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.