Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis latibracteata Jurtzev trib. Galegeae |
Bibliography | Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 19: 269 (1959) |
Native Range | China to Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 1700-3800m |
Description | leaves 10-25cm, leaflets 15-23, elliptic, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, 6-29mm, velutinous-hirsute, flowers 5-9, 22mm, in black hirsute raceme, pod coriaceous |
Size | 10-25cm |
Color | bluish 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 |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |