| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis tragacanthoides Fisch. ex DC. sect. Hystrix |
| Bibliography | Prodr. 2: 280 (1825) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and w. & n. China |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | rocks |
| Altitude | 1000-4100m |
| Description | spinose, leaves 1-6cm, leaflets 4pairs, oblong, mucronate, appressed silvery hirsute, flowers 3-4 in umbel, corolla 20-25mm, pod ventricose, broadly ovate, softly hirsute |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | violet, blue, white |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Oxytropis paratragacanthoides Vassilcz. Oxytropis tragacanthoides var. curaica Revuschkin Oxytropis tragacanthoides var. glabra Peschkova ex Krivenko Oxytropis tragacanthoides var. parviflora Polozhij ex Krivenko Spiesia tragacanthoides (Fisch. ex DC.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |