Biology:Acourtia wrightii
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Acourtia |
| Species: | A. wrightii
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| Binomial name | |
| Acourtia wrightii (A. Gray) Reveal & King
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Acourtia wrightii, common name brownfoot, is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States (Texas , New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah, southern Nevada) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas).[2][3]
It is used by the Kayenta Navajo for difficult labor and as a postpartum medicine.[4] The Hualapai also use it medicinally; in that they apply a poultice of the woolly "cotton" from the plant to open, bleeding wounds,[5] and the Pima use it as a styptic.[6]
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer - Acourtia wrightii". NatureServe. 2022-06-22. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.142576.
- ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 74 Brownfoot, Acourtia wrightii (A. Gray) Reveal & R. M. King, Phytologia. 27: 232. 1973.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris 1951 The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho. Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press (p. 49)
- ↑ Watahomigie, Lucille J. 1982 Hualapai Ethnobotany. Peach Springs, AZ. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs School District #8 (p. 49)
- ↑ Russell, Frank 1908 The Pima Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #26:1-390 (p. 80)
Wikidata ☰ Q4674601 entry
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