USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
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Threatened, Endangered, and Proposed (TEP) Plant Profile

Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea. Photo by Ursala Peterson.

Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea habitat. Photo by Steven Spickerman.

Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea range map.
Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea, Fassett's locoweed
ESA Status
Visit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Species Profile link below for links to listing and other USFWS documents.
Threats
- Development
- Lowered lake levels caused by groundwater depletion by adjacent agricultural wells
- Herbicide and pesticide drift and runoff
- Alteration of habitat from sediment and nutrient runoff from adjacent residential lawns
- Heavy recreational use of the plant’s shoreline habitat, including driving on the shoreline
- Trampling of plants by people and dogs
- Competition from invasive non-native plants
Conservation Status
National Forest and Grassland Occurrence
More Information
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U.S. Forest Service
Rangeland Management
Botany Program
1400 Independence Ave., SW, Mailstop Code: 1103
Washington DC 20250-1103

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Location: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/rareplants/profiles/tep/oxytropis_campestris_chartacea/index.shtml
Last modified: Wednesday, 13-Oct-2010 14:36:35 EDT