Re: RC: Re: Locoweed is Jimsonweed

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Thanks for all your research, Donna
It paid off! The last pics look like my locoweed if you just substitute
a greenish-yellowish blossom for the purple ones. Also I should mention
that the stems and leaves have a blue-green color which makes them stand
out a little even before they bloom. This has been quite an interesting
thread for me and I've bookmarked all the pages so that if I see any new
suspicious looking blossoms in my pasture, they're going to be compared
with this "most wanted" list. I guess it is even more crucial for
traveling endurance riders to be familiar with local poisonous weeds in
new areas where they are riding lest their mounts help themselves to
some "treats". I wonder if any ride manager has thought to provide lists
to competitors from out of the area. I'm certainly going to be more
cautious on the trail when I stop for lunch and let my mount graze.
Thanks to all who contributed including Bob's hit list.
Bette
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of 16.2hh TLA Halynov	
(Yes, really 16.2!)
http://www.arabiansporthorse.com
"guest@endurance.net" wrote:
> 
> Donna Dochterman dokadaarbians@earthlink.net
> Ah!  But of course Bette!  Why didn't you say so!  ;o)  Oxytropis lambertii Pursch--also known as purple locoweed!  Here is your picture!  http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/wildflwr/species/oxytlamb.htm And here is another!  http://loco.ucdavis.edu/astragalus/images/Oxytropis_images/Olambertii.htm  Toxicity is the same as for the other Oxytropis spp. and the Astragalus spp.
> 
> I have also learned that, besides the common name of locoweed, Astragalus mollissimus is called Wolley milkvetch so not even that plant is called locoweed by all!  Common names are interesting, often colorful and discriptive, usually easier to learn, but rarely an accurate way to identify plants to others.  The common name is still the one I, like most others, know the local plants by though.  Common names can help me remember and catalog plants in my mind.  Besides which, when on the trails, it is the only name I am likely to get from my companions.  It is only when I need to look a plant up for some reason that the scientific name suddenly becomes very important to me.
> 
> Donna Dochterman
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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of 16.2hh TLA Halynov	
(Yes, really 16.2!)
http://www.arabiansporthorse.com