Flora of North America species comparison

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Oxytropis lambertii var. articulata
Photo is of parent taxon

purple locoweed
Herbage

finely pilose throughout.
Leaves

4–25 cm;

stipules glabrous or thinly or densely pilose abaxially, margins ciliate;

leaflets (7 or) 9–19, blades narrowly linear to linear-oblong, 10–35 mm, usually thick, rigid.
Racemes

12–28-flowered.
Peduncles

10–24 cm, axis 4–11(–13) cm in fruit.
Corollas

usually pink-purple, rarely white, 18–25 mm.
Calyces

7–10 mm, tube 6–8 mm, lobes 1.2–3(–4) mm.
Legumes

sessile, 7–10(–17) mm, included in calyx, less than 2 times as long as calyx.

Oxytropis lambertii var. articulata
Phenology Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat Prairies, bluffs, ravines.
Elevation 600–2000 m. (2000–6600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
KS; NM; OK; TX
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis > Oxytropis lambertii
Sibling taxa
O. lambertii var. bigelovii, O. lambertii var. lambertii
Synonyms Aragallus articulatus, A. abbreviatus, Astragalus lambertii var. abbreviatus
Name authority (Greene) Barneby: Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 111. (1951)
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