| Oxytropis viscida Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aragallus viscidus (Nutt.) Greene, Oxytropis viscidula (Rydb.) Tidestr., Oxytropis verruculosa Pors., Aragallus viscidulus Rydb., Oxytropis viscidula subsp. sulphurea Pors. | ||
| Description | Plant glandular and verrucose, caespitose from branching caudex; leaves with numerous leaflets; stipules pale, with acuminate free ends, pilose to villous on back, more or less glandular-verrucose, ciliate; bracts linear-lanceolate, as long as or mostly longer than calyx; racemes many-flowered, capitate or elongate; calyx teeth glandular, pods black-pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes. Described from the “Rocky Mountains near the source of the Oregon” (River). | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Highly variable, probably with local races. |
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.