| Oxytropis mertensiana Turcz. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aragallus mertensianus (Turcz.) Greene | ||
| Description | Plant with taproot and branching caudex, covered with persistent pale stipules; leaves 1-3(-5)-foliate; leaflets elliptic to oblong, glabrous above, ciliate and spar- ingly pubescent, and bluish-gray beneath; stipules nearly free of each other, linear- lanceolate, ciliate; scape white-pubescent; raceme 1-3-flowered; calyx densely black-pilose, with teeth 2-4 mm long, lance-acuminate, half as long as tube; petals reddish-violet (rarely white), with stipe 1.5-2 mm long, erect, black-haired. | ||
| Ecology | Solifluction soil, gravel bars, in the mountains to at least 1,000 meters. | ||
| Uses | The root is eaten raw by the Siberian Eskimo. |
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.