Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis nigrescens (Pall.) Fisch. ex DC. sect. Arctobia |
Synonyms | Astragalus nigrescens Pall. |
Oxytropis coluteoides Vassilcz. | |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
Description | acaulescent, leaves 3-5cm, leaflets 4-9 pairs, lanceolate, acute, 3-7mm, white hirsute, raceme 2-3-flowered, flowers 17-20mm long, pod oblong, black hirsute, bilocular |
Size | 1-5cm |
Color | pink |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Chita , Krasnoyarsk , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Khabarovsk , Magadan ) Northern America |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | FABACEAE
nigrescens lonchopoda Barneby, Leafl. W. Bot. 10: 23 (1963)
nigrescens uniflora (Hook.) Barneby, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4. 27: 209 (1952)
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