Oxytropis parryi

Plants cespitose, appearing acaulescent, 2–11 cm, herbage silky-pilose. Leaves 1.5–7 cm; stipules membranous or papery, light tan or pale gray, white-pilose, margins ciliate; leaflets 7–17, usually scattered, sometimes opposite, blades oblong to elliptic or lanceolate, 2–9(–12) × 0.8–3 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky-pilose. Peduncles 1.2–8(–10) cm, axis 0.5–1 cm in fruit, pilose; bract lanceolate, pilose. Racemes 1–3(or 4)-flowered, clustered to slightly separated. Calyces somewhat accrescent and covering 1/4 of fruit, campanulate to short-cylindric, 5–8 mm, densely white- and/or black-pilose; tube 3–5.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.5 mm. Corollas usually pink-purple, rarely white, 7.5–12 mm. Legumes erect, sessile, oblong to lanceoloid-ovoid or ovoid, 13–22 × 4–8 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, pilosulous. 2n = 16.

Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Alpine tundra, ridge tops, meadows.
Elevation: 2600–3800 m.

Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N.Mex., Utah, Wyo.

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Lower Taxa