Biology:Thermopsis montana
| Thermopsis montana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Thermopsis |
| Species: | T. montana
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| Binomial name | |
| Thermopsis montana Nutt.
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Thermopsis montana, the false lupin,[1] mountain goldenbanner,[2] golden pea,[3] mountain thermopsis,[4] or revonpapu, is a plant species which is native to the western United States . The Latin specific epithet montana refers to mountains or coming from mountains.[5]
Description
Thermopsis montana is a perennial herb.[6] The flowers are golden-yellow, growing in dense but elongate racemes on leafy stems which can grow up to about 3 feet (0.91 m) in height. Flowers bloom May to August.[6] The leaves grow in triplicate formations.[7]
The plant grows densely in meadows and in moist areas of the high plains, sometimes in association with sagebrush.[7]
Cultivation
It is used as a medicinal plant,[8] and as an ornamental plant in gardens. It is suspected of being poisonous.[3] It is avoided by livestock.[9]
References
- ↑ (xls) BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, https://bsbi.org/download/3542/, retrieved 2014-10-17
- ↑ "Thermopsis montana". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=THMO6. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Whitney, Stephen (1985). Western Forests (The Audubon Society Nature Guides). New York: Knopf. p. 558. ISBN 0-394-73127-1. https://archive.org/details/westernforests00whit/page/558.
- ↑ "Plant Name". https://extension.usu.edu/rangeplants/forbsherbaceous/MountainGoldenpea.
- ↑ Archibald William Smith A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins, p. 239, at Google Books
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=THMO6.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) (in en). Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. pp. 108. ISBN 0-87842-280-3. OCLC 25708726. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25708726.
- ↑ Thermopsis montana in the Native American Ethnobotany database.
- ↑ Fagan, Damian (2019). Wildflowers of Oregon: A Field Guide to Over 400 Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Coast, Cascades, and High Desert. Guilford, CT: FalconGuides. pp. 126. ISBN 1-4930-3633-5. OCLC 1073035766. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1073035766.
Further reading
- Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11892.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4348651 entry
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