Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis savellanica Bunge ex Boiss. sect. Protoxytropis |
Bibliography | Fl. Orient. 2: 503 (1872) |
Native Range | Turkey to Central Asia and w. Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 2800-5100m |
Description | subcaulescent, appresed hirsute, leaflets 5-9 pairs, minute, oblong, obtuse, heads subumbellate, 3-5-flowered, calyx campanulate, pod sessile, oblong, acuminate |
Size | 3-10cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
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 | Oxytropis carduchorum Hedge Spiesia savellanica (Bunge ex Boiss.) Kuntze |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran, IRQ Iraq, TUR Turkey) 36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |