| Oxytropis sheldonensis Pors. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with strong taproot; leaves 23-31 foliate; leaflets lanceolate, white- pubescent beneath; stipules large, white, purple-spotted, glabrous on back, sparsely glandular-dotted and sparsely ciliate; inflorescence subcapitate in flower, somewhat elongating in age; calyx densely black-pilose, short, with tube 5 mm long and subulate teeth 3 mm long; petals rose-colored, drying blue, about 12 mm long; pods gray-hirsute with long, straight beak. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky ledges in higher mountains. |
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.