| Oxytropis scammaniana Hult. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Description | Plant with taproot and branching caudex, covered with persistent straw-colored stipules; leaves 9-13-foliate; leaflets lanceolate to elliptic, sparingly pilose on both sides, or glabrous above; stipules broad, with elliptic, obtuse, free lobes, glabrous, pilose in apex, more or less ciliate; scapes white-pilose; racemes few-flowered; calyx black-pilose, with linear, acute teeth; petals bluish to purplish; pods short, thick, black-haired, erect. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine heaths, to at least 1,500 meters. |
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.