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Salmon River locoweed

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Bessey's locoweed

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

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
from FNA
ID
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
MT; WY
[BONAP county map]
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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis besseyi Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis besseyi
Sibling taxa
O. besseyi var. argophylla, O. besseyi var. besseyi, O. besseyi var. fallax, O. besseyi var. obnapiformis, O. besseyi var. ventosa
O. besseyi var. argophylla, O. besseyi var. besseyi, O. besseyi var. obnapiformis, O. besseyi var. salmonensis, O. besseyi var. ventosa
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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