Biology:Oenothera albicaulis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Oenothera albicaulis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Oenothera
Species:
O. albicaulis
Binomial name
Oenothera albicaulis

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Oenothera albicaulis is a New World plant in the evening primrose family. It is known by the common names prairie evening-primrose,[2] white-stem evening-primrose,[1] whitish evening primrose,[3] or whitest evening primrose.[4]

Distribution

Oenothera albicaulis is native to North America, in the United States (Arizona; Colorado; Montana; New Mexico; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Texas ; and Utah), and in Mexico (in Chihuahua state).[1]

Uses

The Zuni people rub the chewed blossoms on the bodies of young girls so that they can dance well and ensure rain.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oenothera albicaulis was originally described and published in Flora Americae Septentrionalis 2: 733. 1814 [1813] {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Oenothera albicaulis | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = April 7, 2013 }}
  2. "Name - !Oenothera albicaulis Pursh". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/23200535. Retrieved April 7, 2013. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report (30): 87. 
  4. "Oenothera albicaulis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=OEAL. Retrieved 21 July 2015. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16756430 entry