Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis uralensis (L.) DC. sect. Orobia |
Bibliography | Astragalogia: 68 (1802) |
Native Range | ne. & e. European Russia to w. Siberia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves petiolate, leaflets 27-31, sessile, oblong, acuminate, long adpressed hirsute, 12-15mm long, flowers 20-25, sessile, patent, in spike, pod erect |
Size | 5-15cm |
Color | purple |
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 | Aragallus uralensis (L.) Greene Astragalus arcticus Spreng. Astragalus uralensis L. Oxytropis ivdelensis Knajz. Oxytropis ivdelensis var. microphylla Knjaz. Oxytropis ivdelensis var. rectirostra Knjaz. Oxytropis ssojutica Less. ex Walp. Phaca uralensis (L.) Wahlenb. Spiesia uralensis (L.) Kuntze |
Territory | 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, WSB West Siberia) |