Locoweed is a common but inaccurate name for
jimsonweed. My browser found a lot of information on
jimsonweed.
I believe this information is inaccurate---I KNOW
jimsonweed (aka Datura)--I have lived with it for many, many years---no animal
that I know will touch it. We never worried about it for that
reason. It looks a great deal different from locoweed (as I knew in
Kansas and here in Texas). Locoweed is a totally different plant and
horses will eat it when green stuff is in short supply. Jimsonweed
has a very large kind of oak-like leaf, with whitish trumpet-shaped flowers
and large green fruit about the size of an apricot--covered with spikes.
It grows to about three feet in height. The "trunk" can be 2-3
inches in diameter on a good-sized one.
I had some locoweed at one
time---and a drought--and looking back I feel a mare ate a bunch of it as she
had a deformed foal that fit the description of birth defects caused by
locoweed.
Also--I have not had any
locoweed in the pasture since I got goats. I also have no more
cockleburs--the goats eat those, too. Nothing eats the
jimsonweed.
Claudia
Texas
Tina Rushing
El Granada
Kinda funny Kinda sad.
I Was searching for some picks of Loco Weed to give to my new to horses
neighbor, And guess what? A whole long list of things about Marijuana came
up. Says something about how times and our culture have changed in the last
50 years. When I was a kid, if you mentioned LocoWeed everybody knew you
meant crazy horse weed. But now, I had to look for quite awhile to find the
sites I wanted. I did fine very little, Does anyone know where I can find
good pictures of LocoWeed( not Canabus) (( I don't even know how to
spell it! )) I know there are a few varieties, I only found one.
Thanks.Annie