Psoralidium_lanceolatum

<i>Psoralidium lanceolatum</i>

Psoralidium lanceolatum

Species of legume

Psoralidium lanceolatum (syn. Ladeania lanceolata)[1] is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by several common names, including lemon scurfpea, wild lemonweed, and dune scurfpea.[2]

Taken in the Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado USA

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It is native to western North America from central Canada to California to Texas, where it grows in sandy habitat, such as alluvial plains[1] and sagebrush.[3]

It is a perennial herb with a branching, heavily glandular stem growing 30 to 60 centimeters tall. The leaves are palmately compound, each made up of usually three linear or lance-shaped leaflets borne on a short petiole. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers emerging from a leaf axil. Each flower is under a centimeter long with a pealike corolla in shades of light purple-blue to white. The fruit is a hairy, glandular, spherical legume.[1]

The Zuni people eat the fresh flowers to treat stomachaches.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Ladeania lanceolata. Jepson eFlora.
  2. [2]
    Psoralidium lanceolatum. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  3. [3]
    Laedeania lanceolata. Burke Museum, University of Washington.
  4. [4]
    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.


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