| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis montana (L.) DC. trib. Galegeae |
| Bibliography | Astragalogia: 66 (1802) |
| Native Range | Jura to Alps |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| Altitude | 1500-2900m |
| Description | weakly hirsute, leaves pinnate, leaflets lanceolate or narrowly ovate, pod ovate, acute, subventricose, shortly pedicellate, weakly hirsute |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | purplish violet |
| Bloom | late 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 | Aragallus montanus (L.) Greene Astragalus jacquinii (Bunge) Rouy & Fouc. Astragalus montanus L. Astragalus montanus var. jacquinii (Bunge) P.Fourn. Oxytropis jacquinii Bunge Oxytropis montana ssp. jacquinii (Bunge) Nyman Oxytropis neglecta ssp. jacquinii (Bunge) Coulot & Rabaute Phaca montana (L.) Crantz Spiesia montana (L.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 1 Europe 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, GER Germany, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy) |
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