| Oxytropis nigrescens subsp. bryophila (Greene) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aragallus bryophilus Greene, Oxytropis nigrescens var. bryophila (Greene) Lepage. | ||
| Description | Pubescent, with long, gray hairs; caespitose, with short, branching caudex, cov- ered with persistent stipules and petioles, from taproot; leaves 9-13-foliate; leaflets oblong to ovate, pubescent on both sides, ciliate; stipules with lanceolate free parts, glabrous on back in age, ciliate; inflorescence 2-3 (—4)-flowered; calyx densely black-haired, with linear-lanceolate teeth about as long as tube; petals purplish to blue; pods subsessile, oblong to cylindrical, with short beak, gray- to black-pubes- cent. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, in McKinley Park to at least 1,800 meters. O. nigrescens described from between Okhotsk and Aldan, subsp. bryophila from Hall Island, Alaska. |
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.