Taxon: Crotalaria sagittalis L.

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Hampshire [s.], New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont [s.], West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota [e.], Missouri, Nebraska [e.], Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [e.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica
  Brazil: Brazil [n.]
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Jujuy, Salta; Paraguay

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants. (Atlas Tenn)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador) [mentions].
• Lewis, G. P. & P. E. Owen. 1989. Legumes of the Ilha de Maraca. (Leg Maraca)
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-. (F Hispan)
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Matuda, E. 1981. Las leguminosae del estado de México. (Leg Mex)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. (F IllMohl)
• Pinto, P. & P. M. Ruiz, eds. 1986. Flora de Colombia. (F Colomb) 4:73. [Bernal].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas. (L Penn)
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). (F Nicaragua)
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Windler, D. R. 1972. Selection of a lectotype for Crotalaria sagittalis L. (Leguminosae). Taxon 21:545.
• Windler, D. R. 1974. A systematic treatment of the native unifoliolate crotalarias of North America (Leguminosae). Rhodora 76:172.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 (L Argent)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crotalaria sagittalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crotalaria sagittalis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Crotalaria sagittalis L.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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