| Oxytropis borealis DC. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Oxytropis glutinosa Pors., Oxytropis leucantha (Pall.) Bunge | ||
| Description | Caespitose; leaves 16-25 foliate; leaflets oblong-ovate, with revolute margin, glabrous on both sides or nearly so, ciliate, more or less glandular; stipules glabrous on back, strongly ciliate and profusely glandular-verrucose; scapes pilose and glandular; raceme capitate, 5-10-flowered; calyx white- and dark-pubescent, sparse- ly glandular, with densely glandular teeth, about half as long as tube; petals pale blue; pod oblong-ovate with a hooked beak. | ||
| Ecology | Dry tundra. |
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.