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Oxytropis prenja

Oxytropis prenja
Photo: Echinops, CC SA 1.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Safety
Not toxic to cats or dogs (ASPCA).
Native range
W. Balkan Pen.
Climate
temperate

About

Oxytropis prenja (G. Beck) G. Beck in Reichenb. & Reichenb. Fil. (synonyms: O. halleri Bunge ex Koch var. prenja G. Beck, in Bosnian Prenjska osivnica (Prenj's locoweed) or Prenjska oštrica) is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae.

Where it grows

The plant is growing in the highest band of Herzegovinian high mountains, built of limestone rocks, at altitudes around 1900–2220 m. It is overwhelming the mountain heliophyte.

Other Oxytropis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxytropis prenja 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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