General:
Low perennial herb from a stout taproot and branching stem-base covered with persistent leaf-stalks and stipules; tufted, 5-25 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 5-30 cm long; leaflets 11 to 21, oval to lance-oblong, 7-30 mm long, grey or silvery silky-hairy on both surfaces; stipules membranous, about as long as the leaflets, joined to the leaf-stalks for 1/2 of their length, long-hairy to glabrous on the back, the margins fringed with bristly hairs.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a spike-like raceme 2-10 cm long, elongating in age, of 5 to 25 pea-like flowers, the raceme-stalks stout, erect, 7-25 cm long; corollas whitish to pale yellow, sometimes pinkish-tinged, 15-25 mm long; calyces cylindric, silky with dark and pale hairs, 9-13 mm long, the linear-lanceolate teeth about 1/2 as long as the tube.
Fruits:
Pods, oblong, 15-25 mm long, erect, short-beaked, fleshy when green but bony when dry, short-hairy, nearly 2-chambered.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
1480 | 520 | 2682 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
24 | 0 | 100 |
Aspect (degrees) |
199 | 20 | 356 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 0 | 7 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
160 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
AT(2), BAFA(6), BWBS(3), ESSF(43), ICH(1), IDF(74), IMA(13), PP(12), SWB(1) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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