Oxytropis besseyi var. salmonensis |
Oxytropis besseyi var. fallax |
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Salmon River locoweed |
Bessey's locoweed |
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Habit | Plants low, hairs appressed-silky. | Plants usually robust. |
Leaves | 4–8 cm; rachis 6–20 cm, shorter than or equaling longest leaflet; leaflets 5–9, crowded on rachis, 10–19 mm. |
4–16 cm; rachis 10–40 mm, shorter than longest leaflet; leaflets 7–15, scattered on rachis, 10–23 mm. |
Racemes | 7–10(–12)-flowered, subcapitate at anthesis. |
11–19-flowered. |
Peduncles | 6–10 cm, surpassing leaves, axis 1–2.5 cm in fruit. |
10–15 cm, surpassing leaves, axis 2.5–5.5 cm in fruit. |
Corollas | 18–21 mm. |
17–21 mm. |
Calyces | 9–12 mm, appressed silky-hairy, with few ascending hairs. |
8.5–10.5 mm, appressed silky-pilose, sometimes with a few ascending hairs. |
Legumes | short-stipitate, strongly inflated, subglobose. |
short-stipitate, swollen to strongly inflated. |
Oxytropis besseyi var. salmonensis |
Oxytropis besseyi var. fallax |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Clay slopes. | Slopes, hilltops, on sandstone. |
Elevation | 1600–1900 m. (5200–6200 ft.) | 1200–2000 m. (3900–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID |
MT; WY |
Discussion | Variety salmonensis is restricted to the areas of Big Lost and Salmon rivers in Custer County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety fallax is restricted to an area west of the Bighorn River. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | O. nana var. salmonensis | O. nana var. fallax |
Name authority | Barneby: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 27: 234. (1952) | Barneby: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 27: 235. (1952) |
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