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Thermopsis

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Thermopsis
North American plant genus of the legume family Fabaceae; contain toxic quinolizidine alkaloid; causes myopathy, stiff gait, recumbency; includes T. montana (poison bean), T. rhombifolia (yellow bean). Called also false lupin, mountain thermopsis, golden banner.


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in rangeland B; and Thermopsis, Poo, Gentiana, Potentilla, Taraxacum, Ranunculus, Oxytropis, and Astragalys spp.
Donahue and his co-workers at the University of Wyoming in Laramie used scanning electron microscopy and fiber-optic light detectors to track light paths within leaves of the Rocky Mountain weed Thermopsis montana in sun and shade.
 
 
 
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