Flora of North America species comparison

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Oxytropis borealis var. australis
Photo is of parent taxon

boreal locoweed
Habit Plants usually 4–18 cm, markedly viscid.
Leaves

4–17 cm;

leaflets 17–27, blades thick and stiff, apex usually obtuse to rounded.
Racemes

usually 3–15-flowered, subcapitate to somewhat elongate.
Peduncles

1–15 cm, longer than or subequal to leaves, axis 4.5–5 cm in fruit, pubescent.
Corollas

usually white or ochroleucous, keel tips maculate or not, rarely fading bluish, 15–18 mm;

wing blades not especially dilated distally.
Calyces

5–7 mm, tube 3–4 mm, lobes 1–3 mm, prominently tuberculate.
Legumes

erect-ascending, 12–16 × 4–6 mm.

Oxytropis borealis var. australis
Phenology Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat Pinyon-juniper, moun­tain brush, meadow communities.
Elevation 2500–3500 m. (8200–11500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; UT
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Discussion

Variety australis is restricted to Emery, Sevier, and Wayne counties, Utah, Elko and Nye counties, Nevada, and Inyo and Mono counties, California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis borealis
Sibling taxa
O. borealis var. borealis, O. borealis var. hudsonica, O. borealis var. sulphurea, O. borealis var. viscida
Name authority S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 50: 359. (1991)
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