Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis hudsonica (Greene) Fernald trib. Galegeae |
Bibliography | Rhodora 30: 142 (1928) |
Native Range | Subarctic America to e. Canada |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | green, viscid, pilose, leaves 3-20cm, pinnate, leaflets narrowly oblong, 5-25mm, raceme spicate, 2-7cm long, 7-30-flowered, flowers 10-15mm long |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | purplish red, white |
Bloom | late 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 basal cuttings in summer |
Synonyms | Aragallus hudsonicus Greene Oxytropis borealis var. hudsonica (Greene) S.L.Welsh Oxytropis leucantha f. galactantha B.Boivin Oxytropis leucantha var. hudsonica (Greene) B.Boivin Oxytropis viscida var. hudsonica (Greene) Barneby Oxytropis viscida ssp. hudsonica (Greene) Á.Löve & D.Löve |
Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (NUN Nunavut) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, QUE Québec) |