Alkali Milk Vetch(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The milkvetches belong to the subfamily Papilionoideae.
Alkali milkvetch is a delicate, sparsely hairy to smooth herb, growing one to twelve inches high.
Alkali milkvetch is not listed by the state of California or the federal government, so it is afforded no protection under the state or federal Endangered Species Acts.
Milk Vetch Flora - - by Provence Beyond(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The pinkish-purple flowers grow in tight clusters of 7 to 30, at the tips of long stalks that are taller than the leaf stalks.
The leaves are in 10-20 pairs of ovals along a stalk that grows to 20 cm long, distinctive from other vetches.
This pink-flowered vetch grows as a low clump, with the flower stalks and leaf stalks rising directly from the roots, rather than from above-ground stems.
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Friends of Sand Mountain - WSJ: Dune Buggy Takes On Peirson's Milk-Vetch(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
To try to sift the conflicting assertions of vetch viability, the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management will spend $1 million for its annual survey.
This month, as the winter off-road-vehicle season ends, a team of 30 government-hired biologists has moved out here, living in tents, tallying the plants in sample five-mile tracts.
Moves to separate vetch from vehicles began in 1994, when a Democratic Congress prodded by environmental groups set aside 32,000 acres in the northern part of the dunes as a permanent wilderness area.
Dean's Milk Vetch [Astragalus deanei (Rydb.) Barneby](Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The few extant locales examined showed this species to utilize the partial shade of low-growing shrubs where Dean's MilkVetch was not readily detectable.
A Data Base record is from the confluence of an unnamed creek and Potrero Creek approximately 0.75 mile west of Grapevine creek northeast of Tecate Peak.
No specimens for Dean's MilkVetch are found in the San Diego Natural History Museum's herbarium from Baja California.
Plant ruling cuts habitat for milk vetch(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The number of acres prohibited to off-road vehicle use because of a threatened plant in the Imperial Sand Dunes will not increase, according to a federal rule effective Friday.
Last August, the service proposed designating 52,780 acres for the survival and recovery of Peirson's milkvetch, a perennial member of the legume family that the service declared a threatened species in 1998.
Out of the 160,000 acres of dunes, the final rule allocates 21,800 acres to the milkvetch critical habitat.
I could find no information as to any economic uses for this milk-vetch.
In ancient Greece, certain members of the genus were supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats, but many of the so-called milk-vetches are notorious poisoners of livestock and can cause "locoing."
The generic name Astragalus is an ancient Greek name for some member of the bean family (Fabaceae) and also of the ankle bone.
Astragalus root was also applied to cuts and wounds to help promote healing.
Other milkvetches such as A. racemonsus, A bisulcatus, A. adsurgens, A. mollissimus, and related look-alikes Oxytropis lambertii and O. sericea are toxic, and can cause lethargy, diarrhea, hair loss, difficulty breathing, rapid and weak pulse, and coma in animals.
A 2-3 ft. tall Chinese perennial, MilkVetch Root has sprawling, yellow, pea-like flowers in late summer.
A hardy transplant, it will make seed pods in the first year.
Said to invigorate chi and strengthen the body's surface resistance and immune system, the “Yellow Emperor” is a superior tonic root in Chinese herbal medicine.
Our regulations at 50 CFR 424.21 require that we publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing those species currently under active review.
This notice announces our active review of the Holmgren milk- vetch, Kanab ambersnail, Maguire daisy, Shivwits milk-vetch, Virgin River chub, and woundfin.
A 5-year review considers all new information available at the time of the review.
