| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis merkensis Bunge sect. Ianthina |
| Bibliography | Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 39(II): 11 (1866) |
| Native Range | Central Asia to w. & n. China |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 1700-4600m |
| Description | leaves 5-15cm, leaflets 13-25, oblong or lanceolate, 5-20mm, sparsely hirsute, margins subrevolute, acute, flowers in lax raceme, pod broadly ellipsoid, papery, pendent |
| Size | 15-25cm |
| Color | purple, white |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Oxytropis merkensis f. albiflora P.Yan & M.M.Gao Spiesia merkensis (Bunge) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) |