Psilostrophe tagetina

Psilostrophe tagetina is a flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name woolly paperflower. It is native to Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and northwestern Mexico.[1]

Psilostrophe tagetina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Heliantheae
Genus:
Psilostrophe
Species:
P. tagetina
Binomial name
Psilostrophe tagetina
Varieties

P. t. var. cerifera
P. t. var. tagetina

Uses

Ramah Navajo use a strong infusion as cathartic, also used to treat stomachache, as an eyewash, as a lotion for itching, or in cold infusion gargled or in poultice of leaves applied for sore throat. Keres, Zuni and White Mountain Apache use flowers to make yellow dye. Zuni also make a compound poultice of root to treat rattlesnake bite.[2]

gollark: ℝ π•šπ•€ π•₯𝕙𝕖 𝕀𝕖π•₯ 𝕠𝕗 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝 π•Ÿπ•¦π•žπ•“π•–π•£π•€.
gollark: Gollariosity, not just sentbygollarkness.
gollark: πŸ†ƒπŸ†„πŸ†‡1 πŸ…±πŸ…°πŸ…³ πŸ…°πŸ…½πŸ…³ πŸ…½πŸ…ΎπŸ†ƒ πŸ…ΆπŸ…ΎπŸ…ΎπŸ…³.
gollark: 𝒃𝒆𝒆 π’šπ’π’–, π’ˆπ’‚π’π’‚π’™π’•π’π’π’Šπ’„ π’†π’π’•π’Šπ’•π’š.
gollark: What do you mean "unicode function", for one thing?

References
  1. "PLANTS Profile Psilostrophe tagetina (Nutt.) Greene woolly paperflower | USDA". Natural Resource Conservation Service. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  2. "Psilostrophe tagetina". University of Michigan Dearborn. Retrieved 27 April 2011.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.