| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis nigrescens (Pall.) Fisch. ex DC. sect. Arctobia |
| Bibliography | Prodr. 2: 278 (1825) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East, Alaska to w. Canada |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland |
| 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 | perennial |
| Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, sunny site alpine house, rich, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Aragallus bryophilus Greene Aragallus nigrescens (Pall.) A.Heller Astragalus nigrescens Pall. Astragalus pygmaeus Pall. Oxytropis bryophila (Greene) Jurtzev Oxytropis coluteoides Vassilcz. Oxytropis glaberrima Hultén Oxytropis nigrescens ssp. bryophila (Greene) Hultén Oxytropis nigrescens var. bryophila (Greene) Lepage Oxytropis nigrescens f. genuina Kjellm. Oxytropis nigrescens ssp. pygmaea (Pall.) Hultén Oxytropis nigrescens var. pygmaea (Pall.) Cham. Oxytropis pygmaea (Pall.) Fernald Oxytropis tschuktschorum Jurtzev Spiesia nigrescens (Pall.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (CTA Chita, KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories) |