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Oxytropis campestris

Field Locoweed

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Common names

Field Locoweed.

Scientific name

Oxytropis campestris (L.) DC.

Conservation status and threats

NOT protected species in Bulgaria.

Description and identification

Perennial herbaceous almost stemless plant. The whole plant is densely covered with appressed hairs (trichome). Flowering stems to 20 cm high. The leaves are odd pinnate with 10-13 leaflets. Inflorescence with 6 to 15 yellow flowers, wich have 1.5-1.8 cm long corolla. The fruit is lanceolate, covered with black and white hairs. Flowering July - August¹.

Habitat

On dry calcareous slopes and stony meadows in the alpine belt².

Distribution in Bulgaria

In the Pirin, Rila³ and Stara Planina⁴ mountains; between 2500 and 2900 meters altitude in Pirin and Rila⁵ and at 1900 meters altitude in Stara Planina⁶.

General distribution

Northern Europe and the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, Siberia, North America⁷.

Pollinators

A study in Bulgaria shows that the flowers of the Oxytropis campestris in Pirin are visited and pollinated by two species of bumblebees - Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pyrenaeus⁸.

References

1 Стоянов Н. и Б. Китанов. 1966. Високопланинските растения в България, София.

2 Кожухаров, Ст. 1976. Във: Флора на Народна Република България, том VI, София.

3 Стоянов Н. и Б. Китанов. 1966. Пос. източник.

4 Marinov Y. & S. Stoyanov. 2017. In: Vladimirov, V. & al. New floristic records in the Balkans: 34. PHYTOLOGIA BALCANICA 23 (3): 413 – 444, Sofia.

5 Стоянов Н. и Б. Китанов. 1966. Пос. източник.

6 Marinov Y. & S. Stoyanov. 2017.

7 Кожухаров, Ст. 1976. Пос. източник.

8 Kožuharova E., A. J. Richards, M. Hale, N. Benbassat and K. Wolff. 2015. Another brick in the wall of the Oxytropis campestris complex with an emphasis of three members of this group from Pirin mts, the Balkans . Nova Science Publishers.

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