Biology:Phacelia neomexicana

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Phacelia neomexicana
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Phacelia
Species:
P. neomexicana
Binomial name
Phacelia neomexicana
Thurb. ex Torr.

Phacelia neomexicana, common names New Mexico phacelia and New Mexico scorpionweed, is a plant. The Zuni people mix the powdered root with water and use it for rashes.[1]

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 ☰ Q16756988 entry