Astragalus desereticus Barneby
Deseret milk vetch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1909 (Ripley, 1975:43)
Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Previously considered probably Extinct ("prEX") (Ripley, 1975:43).
Distribution
Utah County, Utah
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Ayensu, E.S. & Defilipps, R.A. (1978). Endangered and Threatened Plants of the United States: 1-403. Smithsonian Institution and WWF-US, Washington DC.
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]
Ripley, S. Dillon. (1975). Report on endangered and threatened species of the United States. House Document 94-51: 1-200 [43].
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.
http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2179/deseret-milk-vetch
http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/ASP/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=396