| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Oxytropis lapponica (Wahlenb.) J.Gay sect. Protoxytropis |
| Bibliography | Flora 10: 30 (1827) |
| Native Range | Europe and Temperate Asia to Himalaya |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Description | leaves pinnate, leaflets oblong-lanceolate, appressed hirsute, inflorescence capitate, above leaves, corolla minute, basally light blue to yellowish, calyx black hirsute |
| Size | 8-30cm |
| Color | pale purple |
| Bloom | early 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 |
| Synonyms | Astragalus cervinii E.Thomas ex Steud. Astragalus lapponicus (Wahlenb.) Burnat Astragalus valesiacus E.Thomas ex W.D.J.Koch Oxytropis amoena Kar. & Kir. Oxytropis carinthiaca Fischer-Oost. Oxytropis deflexa var. lapponica (Wahlenb.) B.Boivin Oxytropis lapponica var. jacquemontiana Benth. ex Baker Oxytropis lapponica var. xanthantha Baker Oxytropis microrhyncha Strachey & Winterb. ex Bunge Oxytropis montana ssp. lapponica (Wahlenb.) Bonnier & Layens Oxytropis thomasii Gaud. Phaca frigida var. lapponica (Wahlenb.) Hartm. Phaca lapponica Wahlenb. Spiesia lapponica (Wahlenb.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, ITA Italy, YUG Yugoslavia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 33 Caucasus (TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHN China North-Central, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, IND India, NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |