Tetraneuris scaposa

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Tetraneuris scaposa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Genus:
Tetraneuris
Species:
T. scaposa
Binomial name
Tetraneuris scaposa
(DC.) Greene 1898
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy

Tetraneuris scaposa (common names stemmy four-nerve daisy[2] and stemmy hymenoxys) is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It grows in the southwestern and south-central United States (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas).[3][4][5]

Tetraneuris scaposa is a perennial herb up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. It forms a branching underground caudex sometimes producing as many as 100 above-ground stems. Leaves are concentrated low on the stem, close to the ground. Flower heads can either be one on a stem, or clustered in tight clumps. Each head has 12–26 ray flowers surrounding 25–180 disc flowers.[6]

Uses[]

The Zuni people use an infusion of it as an eyewash. The Zuni believe that this eyewash is not for people with a "bad heart".[7]

References[]

  1. ^ The Plant List, Tetraneuris scaposa (DC.) Greene
  2. ^ "Tetraneuris scaposa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  3. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ^ Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100
  5. ^ SEINet Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter description, photos, distribution map
  6. ^ Flora of North America, Tetraneuris scaposa (de Candolle) Greene, 1898.
  7. ^ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 60, 61)

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