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Definition of Purple loco

1. Noun. Tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Loco

Literary usage of Purple loco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"... spicatus) in fruit. it,VERY Loco WEED ; PURPLE Loco WEED. Description of: VK Chestnut and EV Wilcox, division of botany, US Dept. of Agriculture. ..."

2. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the by Philip Ashton Rollins (1922)
"Accordingly one would speak of a particular plant as "purple loco" or as "loco-weed," but not as "purple loco-weed." These weeds, whatever their variety, ..."

3. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Lo'co Weed, or Cra'zy Weed, a perennial plant which grows on the plains of the middle W. states of the US The purple loco weed (Astragalus ..."

4. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... purple loco, Stemmed Loco, Texas Loco. Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: April in the southern limit of its range, to June at the ..."

5. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"In the southern Rocky mountain states the disease is more preva- Fig. 122—PURPLE LOCO WEED lent among cattle. The symptoms are those of extreme emaciation, ..."

6. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"... known as purple loco, woolly loco, or Texas loco, is more limited in its range. Among other plants causing heavy losses to stockmen on the grazing lands ..."

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