Oxytropis
Genus in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
Distribution
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Locoweed
Oxytropis is a genus of plants in the legume family. It is one of three genera of plants known as locoweeds, and are notorious for being toxic to grazing animals. The other locoweed genus is the closely related Astragalus. There are about 300 species, native to Eurasia and North America. Several species are native to the Arctic. These are hairy perennial plants which produce raceme inflorescen... © Wikipedia authors and editors (licence)
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- Parent Taxon
- Leguminosae
- Taxonomic Completion
0.68%
4 of 586 accepted Species- Global Pollen Project UUID
- 9789f646-2181-44cc-a463-a05ecb615ae1
- Botanical Reference
- None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources
This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.
The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility