1362 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



loco." The plant has a decumbent habit; that is, the long branches are in- 

 clined to lie rather close to the ground. 



The purple loco plant is found as far north as South Dakota, as far 

 south as Mexico, and as far west as parts of Arizona. Its eastern limit may 

 be stated as central Kansas and Nebraska. 



Treatment: — Keep 

 animals away from it 

 and feed nutritious 

 food. Cattle or sheej) 

 may be disposed of by 

 fattening. 



II. 



The White Loco 

 Weed. 



The white loco plant 

 {Aragallus Laimbcrti) 

 is distinguished from 

 the purple loco by its 

 long, lanceolate leaves 

 and by the gen- 

 eral habit of the 

 plant, which is erect 

 rather than decumbent. 

 It has no tiTie stem, 

 and on this account is 

 sometimes called the 

 ''stemless loco." The 

 flowers are ordinarily on 

 long flower stems and 

 commonly are white in 

 the Plains regions, al- 

 though there is consid- 

 erable variation in 



their color. Purple flowers are not unconnnon. In the mountain regions 

 the white loco ordinarily has very deeply colored flowers — deep shades of 

 violet and purple. It blossoms earlier than the purple loco. Plants blos- 

 som in Colorado in the latter part of April, and early in the summer the 

 flow^ers disappear and the pods are found upon the still erect flower stems. 

 The pods of Aragallus Lamherti are slender and filled A\dth seeds, which, 

 when the pods dry, rattle as a pei-son passes through a patch of the 

 plants, making a sound which closely resembles the warning of a rattle- 

 snake. In this plant, as in the purple loco, there is an extremely long 

 root, growing down from three to six feet. 



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LANT OF THE WHITE LOCO WEED IN FLOWER 



