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Photographer: Steven A. LaValley
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Family Fabaceae
Oxytropis campestris (L.) DC. var. chartacea (Fassett) Barneby
Cold Mountain crazyweed, Fassett's locoweed, northern yellow locoweed
Oxytropis: from oxus, "sharp," and tropis, "keel," in reference to the beaked flower petals
campestris: of the fields or open plains
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| Status: | Endangered (Federally Threatened) |
| Plant: | erect, fuzzy, perennial forb; taprooted |
| Flower: | purple, 5-parted, 1/3"-1/2" long; inflorescence a 1/2"-1" dense, long-stalked spike of stalkless flowers lengthening when in fruit |
| Fruit: | stalkless, thin, papery, beaked pod |
| Leaf: | pinnately-divided into an odd number (15-31) of lance-shaped leaflets |
| Habitat: | sandy lakeshores |
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