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Oxytropis (campestris)

Carol and Jerry Baskin
Professors
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0225
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Family Scientific Name: Fabaceae
Family Common Name: Pea Family
Scientific Name: Oxytropis campestris (L.) DC.
Common Synonym: Oxytropis columbiana St. John columbiana
Common Name: Field crazyweed
Species Code: OXYCAM
General Distribution: O. campestris is found on dry to mesic soils; including river bars, gravel terraces, open forests, alpine meadows and steppe; from British Columbia south to Montana, Idaho, and Washington.
Propagation Goal: plants
Propagation Method: seed
ProductType: Container (plug)
Time To Grow: 0
Propagule Processing: Seeds exhibit physical dormancy.
Pre-Planting Treatments: Germination occurs at 22 C.
References: Steshenko, A. P. (1966). Biology of newly collected seeds of the high mountain zone plants of the Pamirs. Bot. Zhur. 48, 965-978. (In Russian with English summary).
Table 10.33 In: Baskin, C.J. and Baskin, J.M. Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography and Evolution in Dormancy and Germination, Academic Press, 1998. Chapter 10: A Geographical Perspective on Germination Ecology: Temperate and Arctic Zones, pages 331 to 458.

Citation:

Baskin, Jerry M.; Baskin, Carol C.. 2002. Propagation protocol for production of Container (plug) Oxytropis campestris (L.) DC. plants University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky. In: Native Plant Network. URL: https://NativePlantNetwork.org (accessed 2024/07/02). US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Center for Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources.