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Oxytropis lambertii
"... a perennial herb producing a patch of basal leaves around the root crown, and several showy erect inflorescences. The leaf is compound with several silvery-green leaflets. The inflorescence produces several flowers, each borne in a tubular purple or pinkish calyx of sepals covered thinly in silver hairs. The pealike flower corolla is reddish or bluish purple with a lighter patch at the base of the banner. The fruit is a cylindrical legume pod...plant is one of the locoweeds most frequently implicated in livestock poisoning." from Wikipedia
"It is native to grasslands in the Canadian Prairie of central Canada and in the mid-west and Great Plains of the United States." from Wikipedia
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