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Bessey's Locoweed - Oxytropis besseyi var. ventosa
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General Description
See species description.
Diagnostic Characteristics
Barneby (1989, Interm. Fl. Vol. 3, part B) uses the following characters to distinguish variety ventosa from the others: Larger leaves 2-8 mm long and shorter than the scapes; leaflets 5-9(-11), crowded on a rachis less than 2 cm long; pod tumescent; leaflets of mature leaves 9-25 mm long.
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
Southwestern MT, much of central WY, and (uncommonly) in Daggett County, UT (Kartesz 2009).
Habitat
Gernally on sandstone or tuff (Barneby 1989).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus appositus ,
Bombus bifarius ,
Bombus centralis ,
Bombus fervidus ,
Bombus flavifrons ,
Bombus melanopygus ,
Bombus nevadensis ,
Bombus rufocinctus ,
Bombus sylvicola ,
Bombus occidentalis ,
Bombus insularis , and
Bombus kirbiellus (Macior 1974, Bauer 1983, Shaw and Taylor 1986, Williams et al. 2014, Miller-Struttmann and Galen 2014).
Stewardship Responsibility
References
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