Thermopsis montana
Thermopsis montana, the false lupin,[1] mountain goldenbanner,[2] golden pea,[3] mountain thermopsis, 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.[4]
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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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Description
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. The leaves grow in triplicate formations.[5]
The plant grows densely in meadows and in moist areas of the high plains, sometimes in association with sagebrush.[5]
Cultivation
It is used as a medicinal plant,[6] and as an ornamental plant in gardens. It is suspect of being poisonous.[3] It is avoided by livestock.[7]
References
- BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Thermopsis montana". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- Whitney, Stephen (1985). Western Forests (The Audubon Society Nature Guides). New York: Knopf. p. 558. ISBN 0-394-73127-1.
- Archibald William Smith A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins, p. 239, at Google Books
- 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.
- 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. p. 126. ISBN 1-4930-3633-5. OCLC 1073035766.
Further reading
- Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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