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Astragalus mollissimus (purple locoweed; woolly locoweed; woolly milkvetch; wooly loco; wooly locoweed; Woolly Loco)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Astragalus millissimus (common name - wooly locoweed) is a perennial plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of the southwestern United States.
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Infraspecies

Astragalus mollissimus var. bigelovii (Attributes)
Astragalus mollissimus var. bigelowii
Astragalus mollissimus var. coryi (Attributes)
Astragalus mollissimus var. earlei (Earle's Woolly Locoweed) (Attributes)
Astragalus mollissimus var. irolanus
Astragalus mollissimus var. marcidus (Attributes)
Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii (Attributes)
Astragalus mollissimus var. mogollonicus (Attributes)
Astragalus mollissimus var. mollissimus
Astragalus mollissimus var. nitens
Astragalus mollissimus var. thompsoniae (Attributes)

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Predators

Strymon melinus (cotton square borer)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0