Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
locoweed
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Locoweed
Locoweed
(also
crazyweed
and
loco
) is a
common name
in
North America
for any plant that produces
swainsonine
, a
phytotoxin
harmful to
livestock
. Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of
species
, most in three
genera
of the
flowering plant
family
Fabaceae
:
Oxytropis
and
Astragalus
in
North America
, and
Swainsona
in
Australia
. The term locoweed usually refers only to the North American species of
Oxytropis
and
Astragalus
, but this article includes the other species as well. Some references may list
Datura stramonium
as loco weed.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License