Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Oxytropis ochrantha Turcz. trib. Galegeae |
Bibliography | Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 188 (1832) |
Native Range | China to Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 500-2700m |
Description | leaves 8-20cm, leaflets in 4-9 whorls, ovate to linear, abaxially long hirsute, adaxially glabrous, acute, flowers numerous in raceme, calyx yellow hirsute, pod ventricose |
Size | 15-20cm |
Color | white, pale yellow |
Bloom | 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 | Oxytropis chrysotricha Franch. Oxytropis daqingshanica Y.Z.Zhao & Zong Y.Zhu Oxytropis ochrantha var. albopilosa P.C.Li Oxytropis ochrantha var. chrysotricha (Franch.) G.Z.Qian Oxytropis ochrantha var. diversicolor (H.C.Fu & Ma) G.Z.Qian Oxytropis ochrantha ssp. diversicolor (H.C.Fu & Ma) P.C.Li Oxytropis ochrantha f. diversicolor H.C.Fu & Ma Spiesia ochrantha (Turcz.) Kuntze |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |