Ipomopsis longiflora
Ipomopsis longiflora | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Polemoniaceae |
Genus: | Ipomopsis |
Species: | I. longiflora
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Binomial name | |
Ipomopsis longiflora (Torr.) V.E.Grant
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Ipomopsis longiflora, common name flaxflowered gilia or flaxflowered ipomopsis, is a plant. The Zuni people use the dried, powdered flowers and water of I. longiflora subsp. longiflora to create a poultice to remove hair on newborns and children.[1]
Gallery of photos[]
Ipomopsis longiflora flower
References[]
- ^ Camazine, Scott & Robert A. Bye (1980). "A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2 (4): 365–388. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(80)81017-8. PMID 6893476.
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Categories:
- Ipomopsis
- Flora of the Southwestern United States
- Plants used in traditional Native American medicine
- Plants described in 1828
- Ericales stubs
- Medicinal plant stubs