| Hedysarum hedysaroides (L.) Schinz & Thell. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Astragalus hedysaroides L., Hedysarum arcticum Fedtsch., Hedysarum obscurum L. | ||
| Description | Similar to H. alpinum subsp. americanum, but stem low, not branched; inflores- cence short; flowers spreading, large, dark purple; loment mostly 1-3-articulated. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky slopes, stony tundra, gravel. Described from Switzerland and Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrid swarms with H. alpinum subsp. americanum [var. grandiflorum Rollins (mostly); H. truncatum Eastw.]; most specimens with larger and darker flowers and short inflorescence are considered to be the result of this introgressive hybridization. Pure H. hedysaroides occurs in high altitudes only. | ||
| Uses | The rootstock is eaten raw with fat by the Siberian Eskimo. |
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.