| Oxytropis splendens Dougl. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Oxytropis splendens var. richardsonii Hook., Aragallus richardsonii (Hook.) Greene., Aragallus splendens (Dougl.) Greene | ||
| Description | Plant with taproot and branching caudex, densely covered with persistent sti- pules; leaves verticillate, in 7-15 fascicles (40-70 leaflets) but fewer in depauperate specimens; leaflets lanceolate, villous; stipules with triangular to acuminate free ends, densely yellowish-villous dorsally; peduncle long-villous; racemes many- flowered; calyx with teeth 24 mm long, long-villous; petals bluish or pinkish to purplish; pods ovoid to oblong, villous. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, sandy, and shaly slopes. Described from the Red River south toward Pem- bina. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related O. Schel- udjakovae Karav. & Jurtz. |
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.