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Ipomopsis longiflora

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Species of flowering plant

Ipomopsis longiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Ipomopsis
Species: I. longiflora
Binomial name
Ipomopsis longiflora
(Torr.) V.E.Grant

Ipomopsis longiflora, common name flaxflowered gilia or flaxflowered ipomopsis, is a plant. The Zuni people use the dried, powdered flowers and water of I. longiflora subsp. longiflora to create a poultice to remove hair on newborns and children.

Gallery of photos

  • Ipomopsis longiflora flower Ipomopsis longiflora flower

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.
Taxon identifiers
Ipomopsis longiflora
Cantua longiflora


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