Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis microcarpa Gontsch. sect. Protoxytropis |
Bibliography | Fl. URSS [V.L.Komarov, ed.] 13: 542 (1948) |
Native Range | Central Asia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Description | acaulescent, leaves 9-19cm, petioles adpressed white hirsute, leaflets 18-25 pairs, oval, obtuse, 3-6mm, shortly sericeous-hirsute, flowers in compact raceme |
Size | 10-20cm |
Color | violet |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained 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 (KGZ Kirgizistan, UZB Uzbekistan) |