Oxytropis podocarpa, Inflated oxytrope

[cohan]

I suppose at some point, wetter meadows would also give too much competition for O podocarpa? Just rank speculation...

I'd tend to think it's more that it requires drainage... I don't see any of the peas growing in the wet alpine meadows.

Could well be.. I have not tended to think of any part of the Columbia Icefield ('tourist' area near the foot of the Athabasca Glacier) as being dry, never seems to be far from snowing there.. but I don't think I've ever been in mid-summer, need to check back in the files and see.. and of course I also did not actually check soil moisture, so at times I might have been confusing cold (always) with moist!