CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pinnatisecta
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Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pinnatisecta is Fully Sponsored |
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Primary
custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
Plants is: |
Joyce Maschinski, Ph.D. contributed to this Plant Profile. |
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The Sacramento prickle-poppy produces attractive, grapefruit-sized white flowers while spiny leaves and fruits protect the plant from many predators. This species is found along drainages and roadsides near the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. It is a robust, herbaceous perennial, with multiple branching stems. It grows to about 0.5-1.5 m in height and has blue-green leaves with veins that are armored with stout yellow spines. It flowers from May to August. Another subspecies, Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pleiacantha, is considered common. This subspecies has leaves that are less deeply divided, capsule spines that are more dense, and branched at the base, and a yellow-orange latex in its stem. (New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council 1999)
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References |
Martin, W.C.; Hutchins, C.R. 1980-1981. A flora of New Mexico. Germany: Hirschberg. 2591p. |
Tepedino, V.J. 2002. Section III. Environmental Monitoring. III.5 The Reproductive Biology of Rare Rangeland Plants and Their Vulnerability to Insecticides. Grasshoppers: Their biology, identification and management, User Handbook. |
New Mexico Native plants Protection Advisory Committee. 1984 A handbook of rare and endemic plants of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. |
Sivinski, R.; Knight, P. Narrow Endemism in the New Mexico Flora. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-283. Proceedings of the Southwestern Rare and Endangered Plant Conference; September 11-14; Flagstaff, AZ. In: Maschinski, J.; Hammond, H.D.; Holter, L., editors. 1996. USDA and US Forest Service. p 286-296. |
(1999). New Mexico Rare Plants Information. New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council: Albuquerque, NM. Version 15. http://nmrareplants.unm.edu/nmrptc/rarelist.htm. Accessed: 2002. |
NatureServe. (2008). NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. [Internet].Version 7.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer. Accessed: (June 17, 2008). |
Ownbey, G.B. 1958. Monograph of the Argemone for North America and the West Indies. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 21: 1-159. |
USFWS. 1976. Proposed Endangered Status for 1700 U.S. Plants. Federal Register. 41: 24523-24572. |
USFWS. 1987. Proposal to determine Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pinnatisecta (Sacramento prickly poppy) to be an endangered species. Federal Register. 52, 133: 26164-26167. |
USFWS. 1989. Final Rule to Determine Argemone plelacantha ssp. pinnatisecta (Sacramento prickly poppy) To Be an Endangered Species. Federal Register. 54, 163: 35302-35305. |
Soreng, R.J. 1982. Status report on Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pinnatisecta. Alburquerque, NM: U.S. Forest Service, Region 3. |
USFWS. 1994. Sacramento prickly poppy (Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pinnatisecta) Recovery Plan. Albuquerque, New Mexico: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. p.42. |
Coomes, Richard Merril. 1969. The alkaloids of Argemone pleiacantha, Greene, structure elucidation and synthesis of Argemone alkaloids, and the chemistry of Protopine-type acid salts. [Ph.D. Thesis]: Colorado State University. 154p. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |