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 Melbourne ICN Art. 46, Ex. 9)

Typification:

Name Verified on:

02-feb-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 21-may-2013

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

timber milk-vetch (Source: AH USDA) - English
weedy milk-vetch (Source: F Utah) - English

Economic Importance:

Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)

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:

Barneby, R. C. 1964. Atlas of North American Astragalus. Part I. The Phacoid and Homaloboid Astragali Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13:241.
Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 (Cooper & Johnson ed2)
Cronin, E. H. 1974. The poisonous timber milkvetches U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 459:1-15.
Welsh, S. L. et al. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9. (F Utah)

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.

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://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=300059. Accessed 11 mayo 2024.