Oxytropis borealis

Boreal locoweed

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Boreal locoweed is a California native perennial found in alpine and subalpine habitats at high elevations. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white to red-purple flowers that often dry to a blue color, clustered in compact racemes. Growing in dense, green tufts with glandular and puberulent stems, it forms clusters up to 15 to 25 centimeters tall. Its basal leaves feature 21 to 39 leaflets, each 2 to 15 millimeters long, with ovate to lance-oblong shapes that become smaller toward the stem tips. The distinctive fruit is ascending and slightly inflated, with a papery lanceolate structure 8 to 14 millimeters long.

California counties: Inyo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.