Psorothamnus fremontii (Torr. ex A.Gray) Barneby is a plant in the Fabaceae family, order Fabales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Psorothamnus fremontii (Torr. ex A.Gray) Barneby

Psorothamnus fremontii (Torr. ex A.Gray) Barneby

Psorothamnus fremontii is a perennial legume shrub native to deserts of the southwestern US and northwest Mexico.

Family
Genus
Psorothamnus
Order
Fabales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Psorothamnus fremontii (Torr. ex A.Gray) Barneby

Psorothamnus fremontii, synonyms include Psorodendron fremontii, and is commonly known as Fremont's dalea or Fremont's indigo bush, named after John C. Frémont. It is a perennial legume shrub. It is widespread across the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico, found in the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California. It grows in the Sonoran Deserts (including the Colorado Desert), the Great Basin Deserts, and the Mojave Desert sky islands, at elevations between 250 and 1,350 metres, or 820 and 4,430 feet.

Photo: (c) 1992 Gary A. Monroe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Fabales Fabaceae Psorothamnus

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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