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Purple locoweed

Oxytropis lambertii

Also called Stemless Locoweed, Stemless Point-vetch, Lambert's Locoweed, Lambert's Crazyweed, Locoweed, Lambert Crazyweed, Purple Loco

Purple locoweed
Photo: Matt Lavin, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Safety
Not toxic to cats or dogs (ASPCA).
Native range
C. Canada to W. & C. U.S.A.
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Oxytropis lambertii commonly known as purple locoweed, Colorado locoweed, Lambert's crazy weed, or Lambert’s Locoweed is a species of flowering plant in the legume family.

Where it grows

It is native to grasslands in the Canadian Prairie of central Canada and in the mid-west and Great Plains of the United States from Texas to Manitoba and west to Arizona and Montana.

Other Oxytropis plants

Field locoweed · Oxytropis kozhuharovii · Hairy Oxytrope · Stalkpod locoweed · Oxytropis prenja · White locoweed · Oxytropis sobolevskajae · Oxytropis sordida · Showy locoweed · Oxytropis urumovii · Locoweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxytropis lambertii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.

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