Rocky Mountain Flowers
Showy Locoweed
The Showy Locoweed is found in large numbers among the low-elevation grasslands of the Alberta Rocky Mountains.  It has silvery, silky leaves and each leaf has numerous leaflets.  Ten to 35 blue to reddish-purple flowers cluster on long stalks.. Flowers are less than an inch in length.  Cattle seem to avoid the Showy Locoweed but other locoweed are poisonous to cattle. The following web sites compare the Showy Locoweed with the locoweed that kill cattle. Photos by John Fisher
Showy Locoweed in North Dakota
Locoweed consumption by cattle
 
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Email your comments and questions to John at [email protected].
Information source George Scotter and Halle Flygare. Wildflowers of the Canadian Rockies. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986.
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