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Taxon: Astragalus wootonii E. Sheld.

 
Genus: Astragalus
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Faboideae
Subtribe: Astragalinae
Nomen number: 404224
Place of publication: Minnesota Bot. Stud. 1:138. 1894 "wootoni"
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 18-Jan-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

Common names:

  • Wooton's milk-vetch  (Source: Mem NYBG) - English

Economic Importance:

  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals (to livestock fide F Tex; Mem NYBG 13:869. 1964; Kingsbury)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
    • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California (San Bernardino Co. (e.))]
    • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza (w.), Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora (n.), Tamaulipas, Zacatecas (n.w.)]
    • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Puebla, Querétaro, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Ciudad de México]


References:

  1. Barneby, R. C. 1964. Atlas of North American Astragalus. Part II. The Cercidothrix, Hypoglottis, Piptolodoid, Trimeniaeus and Orophaca Astragali. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13:866.
  2. Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California Note: = Astragalus allochrous var. playanus (M. E. Jones) Isely
  3. Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. Note: poisonous
  4. McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
  5. Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:559-902.

Check other web resources for Astragalus wootonii E. Sheld. :

  • 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=404224. Accessed 9 May 2024.