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Astragalus columbianus Barneby (year?)

Columbia milk-vetch

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1922 (Fertig, 2021:8)

Rediscovered in 1976 (Fertig, 2021:8)

 

Distribution

Columbia River, North America

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Ayensu, E. S. and Defilipps, R.A. (1978). Endangered and Threatened Plants of the United States: 1-403. Smithsonian Institution and WWF-US, Washington DC.

Barneby, R. (1964). Astragalus columbianus, in: Atlas of North American Astragalus. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 649-650.

Daubenmire, R. (1970). Steppe vegetation of Washington. Wash. State Agric. Exp. Sta. Techn. Bull. 62: 1-131.

Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. (1975). Threatened or Endangered Fauna or Flora. Federal Register 40: (127): 27919.

Fertig, Walter. (2021). What Ever Happened to Taylor’s Draba? The Search for Historical and Extirpated Plants in Washington. Douglasia 45(1): 7-13.

Hitchcock, C. L. and Cronquist, A. (1973). Flora of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Sauer, R. H., Mastrogiuseppe, J. D. and Smookler, R. H. (1979). Astragalus columbianus (Leguminosae) – rediscovery of an "extinct" species. Brittonia 31(2): 261-264. [Abstract]

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

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