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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lo·co, n.
 1. Bot. A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
 2. Bot. Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Oxytropis lambertii
      n : tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple
          or pink to white flowers [syn: purple locoweed, purple
           loco]