| Oxytropis maydelliana Trautv. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with branching caudex, covered with dense, persistent, dark reddish- brown stipules; leaves 11-21-foliate; leaflets ovate, elliptic to lanceolate, pilose; stipules greenish, in age reddish-brown, connate, with caudate, free lobes; scape villous; racemes many-flowered, capitate, in age somewhat elongated; calyx densely black- to white-pubescent, with teeth 2 to 3 times shorter than tube; petals yellow; pod ovoid to elliptic, with long, bent beak. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, alpine heaths, ridges, on tundra and in the mountains to at least 1,500 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map includes range of subsp. melanocéphala (Hook.) Pors. (O. campestris var. melanocephala Hook.). (See color section.) |
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.