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Siberian Peashrub - Caragana arborescens

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Non-native Species

Global Rank: GNR
State Rank: SNA
C-value: 1


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General Description
Many-stemmed shrub to 4 m. Stems branched, pubescent. Leaves often fascicled, becoming glabrate, even-pinnate with 4 to 10 oblong-elliptic leaflets 1–3 cm long with rounded or truncate, mucronate tips; stipules often with nodal spines. Inflorescence of 1 to 4 flowers, fascicled on spur branches. Flowers papilionaceous, yellow; calyx pubescent, 6–7 mm long; sepals ca. 1 mm long; banner ca. 2 cm long, reflexed, barely longer than the wings and keel. Fruit a glabrous, pendent, linear-oblong legume, 3–5 cm long, narrowed to a slender beak; seeds numerous (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range
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Non-native
 


Range Comments
Collected in Missoula County; native to Asia (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 70

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Habitat
Rarely escaping into fields, pastures, roadsides; plains; valleys (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Ecology
POLLINATORS
The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap: Bombus centralis, Bombus fervidus, Bombus huntii, Bombus griseocollis, and Bombus impatiens (Plath 1934, Thorp et al. 1983, Colla and Dumesh 2010).

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References
  • Literature Cited AboveLegend:   View Online Publication
    • Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.
    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
    • Plath, O.E. 1934. Bumblebees and their ways. New York, NY: Macmillan Company. 201 p.
    • Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
  • Additional ReferencesLegend:   View Online Publication
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    • Culver, D.R. 1994. Floristic analysis of the Centennial Region, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman. 199 pp.
    • Hale, K.M. 2007. Investigations of the West Nile virus transmission cycle at Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, 2005-2006. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 74 p.
    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
    • Seipel, T.F. 2006. Plant species diversity in the sagebrush steppe of Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 87 p.
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