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Taxon: Astragalus racemosus Pursh

 
Genus: Astragalus
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Faboideae
Subtribe: Astragalinae
Nomen number: 5863
Place of publication: Fl. Amer. sept. 2:740. 1813
Link to protologue:
Comment: for date of this publication see Taxon 57:305. 2008
Name Verified on: 28-Oct-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

  • alkali milk-vetch  (Source: F Utah) - English

Economic Importance:

  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals (to livestock via selenium poisoning)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan (s.)]
    • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Kansas (w.), Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma (w.)]
    • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado (e.), Wyoming]
    • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico (e.), Texas]
    • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Utah (n.e.)]
    • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí (w.)]


References:

  1. Barneby, R. C. 1964. Atlas of North American Astragalus. Part I. The Phacoid and Homaloboid Astragali. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13:416.
  2. Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora.
  3. Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
  4. McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
  5. Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:559-902.
  6. Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9.

Check other web resources for Astragalus racemosus Pursh :

  • 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=5863. Accessed 9 May 2024.