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Oxytropis podocarpa
Also called Gray's Oxytrope, Inflated Locoweed, Inflated Oxytrope, Gray's Point Vetch
Oxytropis podocarpa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names stalkpod locoweed, stalked-pod crazyweed, and Gray's point-vetch. It is native to North America, where it occurs in the northern latitudes, from Yukon and British Columbia across the low arctic to northern Quebec and Labrador. In the Rocky Mountains it occurs at the higher elevations as far south as Colorado.
This plant is a matted, cushion-forming perennial herb with erect or prostrate stems just a few centimeters long. The leaves are up to 5 centimeters long and are each made up of several leaflets. The herbage is coated in silvery gray hairs. The inflorescence is a raceme of one or two purple or blue-violet flowers. Flowering occurs in June. The fruit is a papery, inflated, hairy, black legume pod up to 2.5 centimeters long.
Field locoweed · Oxytropis kozhuharovii · Purple locoweed · Hairy Oxytrope · Oxytropis prenja · White locoweed · Oxytropis sobolevskajae · Oxytropis sordida · Showy locoweed · Oxytropis urumovii · Locoweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxytropis podocarpa 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.
