Biology:Ipomopsis longiflora

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Ipomopsis longiflora
Ipomopsis longiflora flaxflowered ipomopsis.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Ipomopsis
Species:
I. longiflora
Binomial name
Ipomopsis longiflora
(Torr.) V.E.Grant

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]

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References

  1. 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3154216 entry