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Thermopsis montana
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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
Binomial name
Thermopsis montana

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

  1. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Thermopsis montana". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b Whitney, Stephen (1985). Western Forests (The Audubon Society Nature Guides). New York: Knopf. p.  558. ISBN  0-394-73127-1.
  4. ^ "Plant Name". extension.usu.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  5. ^ Archibald William Smith A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins, p. 239, at Google Books
  6. ^ a b "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". www.wildflower.org. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  7. ^ a b Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) [1992]. Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 108. ISBN  0-87842-280-3. OCLC  25708726.
  8. ^ Thermopsis montana in the Native American Ethnobotany database.
  9. ^ 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. p. 126. ISBN  1-4930-3633-5. OCLC  1073035766.

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