Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis talassica Gontsch. sect. Protoxytropis |
Bibliography | Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 9: 85 (1941) |
Native Range | Central Asia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | acaulescent, leaves 4-8cm, petioles appresed white hirsute, leaflets 5-12 pairs, elliptic-oblong, 5-10mm, acute, grey appresed hirsute, flowers numerous in lax raceme |
Size | 8-18cm |
Color | reddish violet |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
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 | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan) |