Plants Flashcards
Locoweed name(s)
Astralagus and oxytropic
Locoweed causes (broad)
Teratogens, abortion, infertility
Poison hemlock name
conium maculatum
Lupine kinds
anagyrine (lupinus cuadatus) and ammodendrine (lupinus formosus)
Poison hemlock causes (broad)
Teratogen (crooked calf syndrome)
Lupine causes (broad)
Teratogen
Tree tobacco name
nicotiana glauca
Tobacco causes (broad)
teratogen
Nitrates cause (broad); plant examples
Abortion
Johnson and Sudan grass, oats, wheat corn
Ponderosa pine name
pinus ponderosa
Ponderosa causes (broad)
Abortion
Broomwood/snakewood name
gutierrezia spp
Broomwood causes (broad)
abortion
fescue name(s)
festuca aruninacia, with neophodium coenophialum
Fescue causes (broad)
infertility
poison hemlock causes what and when
Crooked calf, Spring. If eaten 50-75 days in
Lupines cause what when
limb and spine abnormalities
Cleft palette
40-70 days
Tobacco causes what and when
arthrgyroposis and spine curve
50-75d
Locoweed causes and when
Issue is swainsonine; must eat chronically. Addictive.
Neuro issues, abortion, hydrops/arthrogyroposis
Causes more losses than other plants
Ponderosa pine causes and when
Isocupressic acid is the issue
Abortion via carulcle vasoconstriction, hemorrhagic placentitis
Must be eaten 3+ days
Broomweed causes
Multiple compounds (saponins, etc)
Abortion and retained fetal membranes
first bloom of Spring
Fescue causes
Issue is ergovaline, a toxic alkaloid
Causes peripheral vasoconstriction –> summer slump in cattle (infertility and decreased milk)
Don’t give fescue in summer
Nitrates causes
Late gestation abortions
Methemoglobinemia
