Photo of Oxytropis lambetii with a 15 cm ruler for scale

Standard and wings of the flower pulled back to reveal the pointed keel, all of our Oxytropis have a pointed keel

Legume with pinnate leaves, I counted up to 23 leaflets. Leaflets pubescent with long appresed hairs, giving the leaves a somewhat silky-grey appearance. Leaflets oblanceolate measured to 4 cm long and 6 mm wide. Flowers magenta to 2 cm long. Inflorescence is an elongate spike, spike to 9 cm long.

Found in grassland in south eastern Saskatchewan.

Rare, listed as an S2 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Height listed in Budd's Flora from 15 to 25 cm tall. I measured one scape to 38 cm tall.

Might be mistaken for another Locoweed which grows in Saskatchewan - Oxytropis splendens. However, that plant has leaflets whorled in 3's and 4's (Taxonomic Reminder for Recognizing Saskatchewan Plants).

Above photos June 16, on prairie in the Buffalo Grass Eco Reserve, 200 km southeast of our home in Regina, SK.

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