Taxon: Crotalaria spectabilis Roth

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL°, HI°, NC°, TN°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• rattlebox   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• showy crotalaria   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• showy rattlebox   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:105.) – English
  
• showy rattlepod   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• silent rattlepod   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• da tuo ye zhu shi dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• crotalaire remarquable   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• crotalaria sericea   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Inst Agron Parana 80:29. 1995)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

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View toxicology references for Crotalaria spectabilis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Malaysia [Malaya]

• naturalized throughout tropics

• also cultivated

References:

• Bernal M., H. Y. 1986. Crotalaria (Fabaceae - Faboideae). In: Pinto, P. & P. M. Ruiz, eds., Flora de Colombia. 4:93.
• Calegari, A. 1995. Leguminosas para aduba¸ão verde de verão no Paraná. Circ. Inst. Agron. Parana 80:29.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 11:105–107.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Matos G., F. 1978. El género Crotalaria en Venezuela. Acta Bot. Venez. 13:94.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• National Herbarium of New South Wales. 1961–1984. Flora of New South Wales.
• Niyomdham, C. 1978. A revision of the genus Crotalaria Linn. (Papilionaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 11:155.
• Polhill, R. M. 1982. Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar. 373.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yang, C. Y. 1983. On the problems of the classification of Crotalaria in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(4):106.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crotalaria spectabilis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crotalaria spectabilis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Crotalaria spectabilis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Crotalaria sericea Retz.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)

Check other web resources for Crotalaria spectabilis Roth:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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