Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Fabaceae/Fabacées - Legume Family
Oxytropis campestris (L.) DC. var. minor (Hook.) S.L.Welsh
En: Newfoundland oxytrope, Labrador oxytrope, small purple locoweed
Fr: oxytrope de Terre-Neuve, oxytrope mineur
IU: airaq
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Boreal-subarctic eNA; sw/w/nwNfld., N to nLab.; calc.

[=Oxytropis terrae-novae Fernald (basionym) - type: St. John Island, nwNfld.)]
[=Oxytropis campestris (L.) DC. var. terrae-novae (Fernald) Barneby]

[While Canadensys (VASCAN) treats Oxytropis terrae-novae as a synonym of Oxytropis campestris var. minor (FNA treatment, in prep.), the Panarctic Flora (Elven 2018) and the Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Aiken et al. 2011) treat O. terrae-novae as a distinct species with O. campestris var. minor and O. johannensis listed as synonyms of O. terrae-novae.]

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