Flora of North America species comparison

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Oxytropis lagopus var. atropurpurea
Photo is of parent taxon

haresfoot locoweed
Habit Plants 4–15 cm.
Leaves

1.5–10 cm, rachis longer than longest leaflet;

leaflets 11–17, well distributed on rachis, blade surfaces long-pilose.
Racemes

(3–)5–15-flowered.
Peduncles

usually villous, sometimes appressed-pilose.
Corollas

15–19 mm.
Calyces

slightly swollen or not accrescent in fruit, ruptured by (but closely investing) base of exserted pod.
Legumes

usually persisting on plant within calyx until after dehiscence, swollen to inflated, oblong or ovoid, 8–15 × 4.5–6.5 mm.

Oxytropis lagopus var. atropurpurea
Phenology Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat Gravelly plains, ridges, slopes.
Elevation 1000–3200 m. (3300–10500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
MT; SD; WY
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis lagopus
Sibling taxa
O. lagopus var. conjugans, O. lagopus var. lagopus
Synonyms Aragallus atropurpureus
Name authority (Rydberg) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 111. (1951)
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