Botanical illustration from the book of
A. Dietrich Flora regni Borussici ,
1833-1844 Perennial herb 15-50 cm tall, covered with long protruding white hairs. The stalk is usually the only one, erect, rigid, in the lower part often reddish. Leaves are 5-10 cm long, with 7-14 pairs of oblong-lanceolate leaflets, 10-20 mm long and 3-5 mm wide. Stipules separate, from oblong-ovate to lanceolate, grassy.
The brushes are thick, ovate or oblong, with many flowers, on a thickened peduncle that exceeds the leaf blade in length. Bracts are awl-shaped, of the same length with a cup or longer. Calyx 10-12 mm long, tubular-bell-shaped, hairy, its teeth are equal to the tube or longer. Corolla of the flower is light yellow; flag 12-14 mm long, with a notch at the apex; wings shorter than a flag; the boat is even shorter, with a pointed tip up to 1.5 mm long.
The beans are erect, leathery, 15-20 mm long, almost sessile, with round-bud-shaped seeds of olive or walnut brown color.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
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- Oxytropis pallasii Pers. , 1807 - Pallas ' Ostroholodochnik - has a longer, up to 15-17 mm long flag, a curved pointed tip of the boat up to 2.5 mm long. Crimean-Caucasian endemic.
The birthplace of the plant is Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
It occurs in meadow and forb steppes, in steppe meadows.
