Ipomopsis multiflora

Ipomopsis multiflora, common name manyflowered gilia or manyflowered ipomopsis, is a plant. Among the Zuni people, the powdered whole plant is applied to face for headache, and it is also applied to wounds. The crushed blossoms are smoked in corn husks to "relieve strangulation".[1]

Ipomopsis multiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Ipomopsis
Species:
I. multiflora
Binomial name
Ipomopsis multiflora

References

  1. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 52.


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