| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis microphylla (Pall.) DC. sect. Polyadena |
| Bibliography | Astragalogia: 83 (1802) |
| Native Range | s. Siberia to Pakistan and Himalaya |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 1000-5200m |
| Description | acaulescent, white lanate, leaves 4-6cm long, leaflets verticillate, lanceolate-ovate to narrowly elliptic, 2-3mm, racemes 3-6-flowered, calyx cylindrical, pod sessile, erect |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | pale blue, yellow, white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | + |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Astragalus diphyllus Lam. Astragalus microphyllus (Pall.) Pall. Astragalus polyphyllus Willd. Oxytropis grenardii Franch. Oxytropis microphylla f. albiflora P.Yan & M.M.Gao Oxytropis tibetica Bunge Phaca microphylla Pall. Spiesia microphylla (Pall.) Kuntze Spiesia polyadenia Freyn Spiesia tibetica (Bunge) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk) 32 Middle Asia (TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |