Oxytropis campestris var. gracilis (A. Nelson) Barneby:
Canada (North America)
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Canada

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Perennial, Herbs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems very short, acaulescent or subacaulescent, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules green, triangulate to lanceolate or foliaceous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Stipules clasping stem at the base, Stipules adnate to petiole, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences spikes or spike-like, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts conspicuously present, Bract s hairy, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals ochroleucous, cream colored, Petals blue, lavander to purple, or violet, Petals bicolored or with red, purple or yellow streaks or spots, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Keel abruptly curved, or spirally coiled, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit beaked, Fruit hairy, Fruit 11-many seeded, Seeds reniform, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

Type fragment for Aragallus gracilis A. Nelson
Catalog Number: US 965737
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. Nelson
Year Collected: 1896
Locality: Limestone Range, New Castle., Wyoming, United States, North America

Type fragment for Aragallus gracilis A. Nelson
Catalog Number: US 344822
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. Nelson
Year Collected: 1896
Locality: Black Hills., Wyoming, United States, North America

Isotype for Oxytropis mazama H. St. John
Catalog Number: US 336924
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): O. D. Allen
Year Collected: 1896
Locality: Goat Mountains., Washington, United States, North America
Elevation (m): 1829 to 1829

Isotype for Oxytropis campestris var. wanapum Joyal
Catalog Number: US 3144965
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Joyal
Year Collected: 1987
Locality: Saddle Mountain, above lower Crab Cr., sandy ridge above steep N-facing basalt talus., Grant, Washington, United States, North America

Holotype for Aragallus luteolus Greene
Catalog Number: US 401858
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. D. E. Elmer
Year Collected: 1900
Locality: Olympic Mountains., Clallam, Washington, United States, North America

Holotype for Aragallus villosus Rydb.
Catalog Number: US 402156
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. V. Wilcox
Year Collected: 1900
Locality: Craig., Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States, North America

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N1 - Critically Imperiled

Rounded Global Status Rank: T1 - Critically Imperiled

Reasons: Newly described from the Columbia Basin, Oxytropis campestris var. wanapum is known only from Grant County, Washington.

Comments: Published in 1990 by E. Joyal in the Great Basin Naturalist, Vol. 50, 4: 373-377. Name is not listed in Kartesz checklist (1994), but Kartesz (1999) accepts.