Biology:Ottleya wrightii

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Short description: Species of legume

Ottleya wrightii
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Ottleya
Species:
O. wrightii
Binomial name
Ottleya wrightii
(A.Gray) D.D.Sokoloff[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • A.Gray (A.Gray) Brouillet
  • (A.Gray) Greene Anisolotus wrightii
  • Acmispon wrightii (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Hosackia wrightii Lotus wrightii

Ottleya wrightii, synonym Lotus wrightii, is a species of legume native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah).[1][2] It is also said to occur in Nevada.[3] It is known as Wright's deervetch.

It has yellow flowers on many stems, arising from a single root crown. It was named after Charles Wright.[3]

The Zuni people apply a poultice of the chewed root to swellings that they believe are caused by being witched by a bullsnake.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ottleya wrightii (A.Gray) D.D.Sokoloff", Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1007016-1, retrieved 2018-02-06 
  2. "Lotus wrightii (A. Gray) Greene". United States Department of Agriculture: Natural Resources Conservation Service. http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=LOWR&mapType=distribution. Retrieved 2014-01-23. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Edmund C. JaegerDesert Wild Flowers, p. 102, at Google Books
  4. 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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