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Apocynum androsaemifolium (flytrap dogbane; bitterroot; spreading dogbane)

Synonyms: Apocynum androsaemifolium var. androsaemifolium

Wikipedia Abstract

Apocynum androsaemifolium, the fly-trap dogbane or spreading dogbane, is a flowering plant in the Gentianales order. The plant is common in North America, and is widespread across most of the United States and Canada, and in Alaska, California, and Northeast Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Apocynum androsaemifolium androsaemifolium (Spreading Dogbane)
Apocynum androsaemifolium pumilum
Apocynum androsaemifolium var. griseum
Apocynum androsaemifolium var. incanum
Apocynum androsaemifolium var. intermedium
Apocynum androsaemifolium var. tomentellum
Apocynum androsaemifolium var. woodsonii

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  All parts of the plant are poisonous;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The bark yields a good quality fibre that is used for making twine, bags, linen etc; It is inferior to A. cannabinum; The fibre is finer and stronger than cotton; It can be harvested after the leaves fall in the autumn but is probably at its best as the seed pods are forming; The plant yields a latex, which is a possible source of rubber; It is obtained by making incisions on the stem and resembles indiarubber when dry;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
♦ 7Clements, R. E., and F. L. Long. 1923, Experimental pollination. An outline of the ecology of flowers and insects. Washington, D.C., USA, Carnegie Institute of Washington.
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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