Oxytropis nigrescens |
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blackish locoweed, blackish oxytrope, one-flower oxytrope |
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Habit | Plants pulvinate-cespitose to loosely matted, appearing acaulescent, herbage silvery-canescent, villous, silky-villous, strigose, pilose, or glabrous; caudex branches erect or ascending to prostrate-spreading. | ||||||||
Leaves | 0.5–5 cm; stipules membranous, whitish or with light tan or grayish herbaceous tips, 5–14 mm, usually ± pilose, rarely glabrous abaxially, margins often long-ciliate, with clavate processes; leaflets 5–15, blades elliptic to ovate, 2–10 × 1–2(–3) mm, flat, margins involute but not falcate, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky- or silvery-canescent, villous, strigose, or loosely pilose, rarely glabrous. |
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Racemes | 1 or 2(–5)-flowered. |
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Peduncles | 0.3–4[–5] cm, pubescent; bract narrowly lanceolate to linear, pilose. |
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Corollas | bright pink-purple or blue-purple to white, 12–20 mm. |
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Calyces | campanulate, usually black-pilose, sometimes villous, strigose, or glabrous; tube 3–6 mm, lobes 1.8–4 mm. |
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Legumes | spreading, subsessile to short-stipitate or stipitate, stipe 1.5–5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, 18–38(–40) × 8–11 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, usually strigulose to pilose or villous, rarely glabrous. |
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Oxytropis nigrescens |
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Distribution |
n North America; Asia
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Discussion | The Pan-Arctic Flora (http://panarcticflora.org/) splits the Oxytropis nigrescens complex into multiple species. It does not recognize O. nigrescens in the narrow sense as present in North America, restricting that species to Asia; instead, O. arctobia, O. bryophila and O. czukotica Jurtzev (not treated here) are considered present in North America. The Pan-Arctic Flora does not address the status of O. nigrescens var. lonchopoda because it grows outside the region they considered. Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Astragalus nigrescens | ||||||||
Name authority | (Pallas) Fischer in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 278. (1825) | ||||||||
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