Distribution: Occurring in the Olympic Mountains in Washington; Alaska to California, east to Rocky Mountains, also in eastern Canada.
Habitat: Subalpine and alpine areas.
Flowers: June-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Sensitive in Washington (WANHP)
Pollination: Bumblebees
Acaulescent, tufted perennial from a branched, woody base, sticky throughout with wart-like glands.
Leaves odd-pinnate, 3-20 cm. long; leaflets 15-45, linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 5-25 mm. long; stipules 6-12 mm. long, attached to the petiole over half their length.
Inflorescence of spike-like racemes 2-7 cm. long, on long peduncles, exceeding the leaves, 7-30 flowered; flowers cream-colored to reddish-purplish, 10-15 mm. long; calyx 2/3 as long as the corolla, black-hairy, the 5 teeth linear, roughly half as long as the tube; banner slightly upturned, wings broad, keel with a short, straight beak.
Pod 10-15 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad, gray- to black-hairy, the upper suture deeply intruded.
Publication: Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 2: 275. 1825.
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var. viscida – sticky boreal crazyweed, sticky boreal locoweed
Occurring in the Olympic Mountains in Washington; Alaska to California, east to Rocky Mountains, also in eastern Canada.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Oxytropis borealis in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Oxytropis borealis checklist entry
OregonFlora: Oxytropis borealis information
E-Flora BC: Oxytropis borealis atlas page
CalPhotos: Oxytropis borealis photos
