| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis aciphylla Ledeb. sect. Lycotriche |
| Bibliography | Fl. Altaic. 3: 279 (1831) |
| Native Range | sw. Siberia to n. China and Mongolia |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | sandy grassland |
| Altitude | 500-3300m |
| Description | leaves 2-6cm, leaflets 4-12, linear to narrowly elliptic, acuminate, aristate, flowers of 1-2 in raceme, corolla 7-10mm, pod ventricose, hard, coriaceous, white hirsute |
| Size | 4-20cm |
| Color | rose, purple, white |
| Bloom | late spring, summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Oxytropis aciphylla var. aciphylloides Boriss. Oxytropis aciphylla f. albiflora Zhao Y.Chang & al. Oxytropis aciphylla var. gracilis Krylov Oxytropis aciphylla var. utriculata H.C.Fu Oxytropis borissovae Polozhij Oxytropis lycotriche Bunge Spiesia aciphylla (Ledeb.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |