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Taxon: Astragalus miser Douglas

 
Genus: Astragalus
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Faboideae
Subtribe: Astragalinae
Nomen number: 300059
Place of publication: W. J. Hooker, Fl. bor.-amer. 1:153, in adnot. 1831
Link to protologue:
Comments:
  • • authorship verified from original literature
  • • both the name and its validating diagnosis were simultaneously ascribed to Douglas, so he is the author of the name (see Shenzhen ICN Art. 46, Ex. 11)
Name Verified on: 02-Feb-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

  • timber milk-vetch  (Source: AH USDA) - English
  • weedy milk-vetch  (Source: F Utah) - English
  • timber milk-vetch  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
  • astragale prostré  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)

Economic Importance:

  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals;

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta (s.w.), British Columbia (s.)]
    • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [South Dakota (s.w.?)]
    • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming]
    • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona (n.), Nevada (e.), Utah]


References:

  1. Barneby, R. C. 1964. Atlas of North American Astragalus. Part I. The Phacoid and Homaloboid Astragali. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13(1):231-245.
  2. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning
  3. Cronin, E. H. 1974. The poisonous timber milkvetches. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 459:1-15.
  4. Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora.
  5. Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 149-150.
  6. McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
  7. Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
  8. Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9.

Check other web resources for Astragalus miser Douglas :

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=300059. Accessed 9 May 2024.