Ipomopsis_multiflora

<i>Ipomopsis multiflora</i>

Ipomopsis multiflora

Species of flowering plant

Ipomopsis multiflora, known as manyflowered gilia or manyflowered ipomopsis, is a short-lived perennial flowering plant. Among the Zuni people, the powdered whole plant is applied to face to cure headache, and it is also applied to wounds. The crushed blossoms are smoked in corn husks to "relieve strangulation".[1]

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Ipomopsis multiflora grows 15 to 50 cm (6 to 20 in) tall with short and long, glandular and unglandular hairs on its stems.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 52.
  2. [2]
    "Ipomopsis multiflora". swbiodiversity.org. SEINet Portal Network. Retrieved 28 September 2020.


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