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Oxytropis podocarpa

Gray's oxytrope, inflated locoweed, stalk-pod locoweed
Habit Plants cespitose, appearing acaulescent; caudex subterranean or superficial; branches sometimes elongate, with persistent, pale stipules and leaf bases.
Leaves

0.5–6 cm;

stipules membranous, stramineous, 7–13 mm, glabrous, margins ciliate;

leaflets (5–)9–13, opposite, blades linear-lanceolate to linear, (4–)5–8.5(–12) mm, usually involute and falcate, apex acute, surfaces greenish, sparsely hirsute.
Racemes

1–3-flowered, subcapitate.
Peduncles

0.5–5 cm, pubescent;

bract ovate to lanceolate, pilose.
Corollas

often purple, sometimes white, 12–15(–19) mm.
Calyces

campanulate, pilose;

tube 5–7 mm, lobes (1–)2–3 mm.
Legumes

spreading, stipitate, stipe 1.5–3 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid or bladdery-inflated, 15–25(–38) × 10–17(–20) mm, subunilocular, thin-papery, strigose-pilosulous.

Oxytropis podocarpa
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Rocky alpine ridges, coastal shores.
Elevation 0–3900 m. (0–12800 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; MT; WY; AB; BC; LB; NU; QC
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Discussion

Plants with flowers alone are difficult to separate from Oxytropis nigrescens; the folded, typically falcate leaflets of O. podocarpa are diagnostic. Oxytropis podocarpa is a species of conservation concern in Montana.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis
Sibling taxa
O. arctica, O. besseyi, O. borealis, O. campestris, O. deflexa, O. huddelsonii, O. kobukensis, O. kokrinensis, O. lagopus, O. lambertii, O. maydelliana, O. mertensiana, O. multiceps, O. nana, O. nigrescens, O. oreophila, O. parryi, O. riparia, O. scammaniana, O. sericea, O. splendens
Synonyms Aragallus inflatus, A. podocarpus, O. arctica var. inflata, O. inflata, Spiesia inflata, S. podocarpa
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 234. (1864)
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