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Oxytropis lambertii (Purple Locoweed; purple loco; Lambert locoweed; Lambert's Locoweed; Lambert Crazyweed; stemless loco; white woollyloco; whitepoint locoweed; Lambert Loco; Loco)

Synonyms: Aragallus lambertii (homotypic); Astragalus lambertii var. bigelowii; Oxytropis hookeriana; Oxytropis plattensis; Spiesia lambertii

Wikipedia Abstract

Oxytropis lambertii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by several common names, including purple locoweed, woolly locoweed, and Lambert crazyweed.
View Wikipedia Record: Oxytropis lambertii

Infraspecies

Oxytropis lambertii bigelowii
Oxytropis lambertii lambertii
Oxytropis lambertii var. articulata (Attributes)
Oxytropis lambertii var. bigelovii (Attributes)
Oxytropis lambertii var. bigelowii
Oxytropis lambertii var. lambertii (Attributes)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Bloom Period [2]  Mid Spring
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  Low
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  90 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Summer
Growth Form [2]  Single Crown
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Hazards [3]  The plant is toxic to cattle, does it concentrate selenium from the soil; The plant contains toxins, possibly indolizidine alkaloids. The toxin can accumulate in the body and causes trembling, high excitability, paralysis and death;
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  10 inches (25 cm)
Scent [3]  The flowers have a sweet smell of carnations;
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Slow
Seed Vigor [2]  Low
Seeds Per [2]  209000 / lb (460766 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Semi-Erect
Structure [4]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  Red
Foliage Color [2]  Gray-Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Flower Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Water Use [2]  Low
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Protected Areas

Predators

Bruchophagus gibbus[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0