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noun - any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock
noun - street names for marijuana
noun - a plant that causes poisoning when eaten by livestock
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| Horses, cattle, & sheep can be poisoned by eating this weed whose name comes from the Spanish for "crazy" |
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| Any of several plants of the genera Oxytropis and Astragalus in the pea family, which are widespread in the western and central United States and cause severe poisoning when eaten by livestock. Also called crazyweed, loco1. |
| a plant of the pea family which can cause a brain disorder if eaten by livestock, found in the western and south-western US. |
| any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock |
| street names for marijuana |
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| Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, a phytotoxin harmful to livestock. Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, and Swainsona in Australia. The term locoweed usually refers only to the North American species of Oxytropis and Astragalus, but this article includes the other species as well. Some references may list Datura stramonium as locoweed.Locoweed is relatively palatable to livestock, and some individual animals will seek it out. Livestock poisoned by chronic ingestion of large amounts of swainsonine develop a medical condition known as locoism (also swainsonine disease, swainsonine toxicosis, locoweed disease, and loco disease; North America) and pea struck (Australia). Locoism is reported most often in cattle, sheep, and horses, but has been reported also in elk and deer. It is the |