Biology:Cryptantha cinerea

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Short description: Species of flowering plant


Cryptantha cinerea
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C. cinerea
Binomial name
Cryptantha cinerea
(Greene) Cronquist

Cryptantha cinerea (common name James' catseye) is a plant found in the United States.

Uses

Among the Zuni people, the powdered root of the jamesii variety is used to relieve a sore anus.[1]

References

  1. Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye 1980 A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388 (p. 374)

Wikidata ☰ Q13904119 entry