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jordal's field locoweed, jordal's locoweed, jordal's oxytrope

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field locoweed

Habit Plants 5–12(–18) cm, herbage sparsely pilose, hairs subappressed. Plants 4–86 cm, herbage silky-pilose, hairs subappressed, often loosely and copiously pilose.
Leaves

1.5–9 cm;

stipules glabrous or strigose abaxially, margins ± ciliate, apex often bristly;

leaflets 9–19, scattered or opposite, blades 1–11 mm.

4–26 cm;

stipules pilose, margins ciliate;

leaflets 17–29, scattered, opposite, or subopposite, blades 3–29 mm.

Racemes

usually 2–9-flowered, subcapitate or somewhat elongate.

7–12(–14)-flowered.

Peduncles

3–12(–14) cm, axis 1–4.5 cm in fruit.

erect, (4–)8–36 cm, axis 1.5–9(–11) cm in fruit.

Corollas

whitish or yellowish, sometimes polychrome, 10–14(–15) mm.

usually purple, rarely white, 12–18.5 mm.

Calyces

tube (3.7–)4–5.5 mm, lobes 1–1.5 mm.

tube 5–6 mm, lobes usually lanceolate, (1–)2–3 mm.

Legumes

9–12 × 3.5–5 mm.

8–15 × 4–6 mm.

2n

= 32.

= 48.

Oxytropis campestris var. jordalii

Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea

Phenology Flowering spring–summer. Flowering summer.
Habitat Alpine tundra, heathlands, gravel bars, exposed ridges. Sandy lake shores.
Elevation 10–1300 m. (0–4300 ft.) 300–400 m. (1000–1300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; BC; NT; YT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
WI
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety jordalii is transitional to vars. roaldii and varians. Data from J. L. Jorgensen et al. (2003) give some support to O. jordalii and O. varians as distinct species.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Variety chartacea is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis campestris Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis campestris
Sibling taxa
O. campestris var. chartacea, O. campestris var. columbiana, O. campestris var. cusickii, O. campestris var. davisii, O. campestris var. dispar, O. campestris var. johannensis, O. campestris var. minor, O. campestris var. roaldii, O. campestris var. spicata, O. campestris var. varians, O. campestris var. wanapum
O. campestris var. columbiana, O. campestris var. cusickii, O. campestris var. davisii, O. campestris var. dispar, O. campestris var. johannensis, O. campestris var. jordalii, O. campestris var. minor, O. campestris var. roaldii, O. campestris var. spicata, O. campestris var. varians, O. campestris var. wanapum
Synonyms O. jordalii, O. campestris subsp. jordalii, O. leucantha subsp. jordalii O. chartacea
Name authority (A. E. Porsild) S. L. Welsh: Leafl. W. Bot. 10: 25. (1963) (Fassett) Barneby: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 27: 269. (1952)
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