Oxytropis kobukensis Welsh
 
FamilyLeguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae
DescriptionCaespitose, with branching caudex; leaves 13-14-foliate; leaflets lanceolate to lance-oblong, pilose to glabrate above, strigose beneath; stipules rigid, persistent, purplish, pilose on back, with long-attenuate free ends, the margins scarious, ciliate, and with clavate processes; raceme 5-6-flowered; flowers 16-18 mm long, purplish; calyx purplish, strigillose, with light and dark hairs and linear-lanceolate teeth about one-third as long as tube; pod black-pilose.
EcologySand dunes at Kobuk River opposite Hunt River.
Hultén's Flora About

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.