Plant species in the pea family
Oxytropis campestris
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Plantae
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Clade:
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Tracheophytes
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Clade:
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Angiosperms
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Clade:
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Eudicots
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Clade:
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Rosids
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Order:
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Fabales
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Family:
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Fabaceae
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Subfamily:
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Faboideae
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Genus:
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Oxytropis
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Species:
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O. campestris
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Binomial name
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Oxytropis campestris
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Subspecies and varieties[2]
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- Oxytropis campestris subsp. campestris
- Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea (Fassett) Barneby
- Oxytropis campestris var. columbiana (H.St.John) Barneby
- Oxytropis campestris var. cusickii (Greenm.) Barneby
- Oxytropis campestris var. davisii S.L.Welsh
- Oxytropis campestris var. dispar (A.Nelson) Barneby
- Oxytropis campestris var. johannensis Fernald
- Oxytropis campestris var. jordalii (A.E.Porsild) S.L.Welsh
- Oxytropis campestris var. kintyrica P.D.Sell
- Oxytropis campestris var. minor (Hook.) S.L.Welsh
- Oxytropis campestris var. perthensis P.D.Sell
- Oxytropis campestris subsp. rishiriensis (Matsum.) Toyok.
- Oxytropis campestris var. roaldii (Ostenf.) S.L.Welsh
- Oxytropis campestris var. scotica (Jalas) P.D.Sell
- Oxytropis campestris var. spicata Hook.
- Oxytropis campestris subsp. tatrae (Borbás) Dostál
- Oxytropis campestris subsp. tiroliensis (Sieber ex Fritsch) Leins & Merxm.
- Oxytropis campestris var. varians (Britton & Rydb.) Barneby
- Oxytropis campestris var. wanapum Joyal
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Synonyms[2]
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- Aragallus campestris (L.) Greene (1897)
- Astragalus campestris L. (1753)
- Phaca campestris (L.) Wahlenb. (1813)
- Spiesia campestris (L.) Kuntze (1891)
- Tragacantha campestris (L.) Kuntze (1891)
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Oxytropis campestris, the field locoweed,[3] is a plant native to Northern Europe, the mountains of Central & Southern Europe, the Northwestern United States and all of Canada, sometimes grown as an ornamental plant.
It is found in prairies, woods, and meadows, and prefers gravelly and rocky slopes, where it grows most abundantly. The plant has numerous variants. It is a larval host plant of the small blue butterfly[4]