| Oxytropis deflexa var. sericea Torr. & Gray | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Oxytropis deflexa var. parviflora Boiv., Oxytropis retrorsa var. sericea Fern., Oxytropis retrorsa Fern. | ||
| Description | Loosely villous-pilose; stems with 1-2 internodes from short, branching caudex; leaves 15-39-foliate with ovate to narrowly lanceolate leaflets; stipules with lanceo- late, pilose, free parts; racemes mostly 10-20-flowered, short when young, elongat- ing in age; calyx with narrow, linear to lanceolate teeth; petals whitish, suffused with pink or purple; pods spreading, in age reflexed, stipitate, narrowly oblong, strigillose. | ||
| Ecology | Riverbanks, meadows, waste places. O. deflexa described from Baikal, var. sericea from the Rocky Mountains (Nuttall). | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of var. defléxa and of the very closely related subsp. norvégica Nordh. (isolated in northern Norway). |
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.