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Purple locoweed

Oxytropis lambertii

Description:

"... 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

Habitat:

"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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Lee C.
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Lee C.

Estes Park, Colorado, USA

Spotted on Jul 11, 2009
Submitted on Jul 10, 2012

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