Phacelia neomexicana

Phacelia neomexicana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Phacelia
Species: P. neomexicana
Binomial name
Phacelia neomexicana
Thurb. ex Torr.

Phacelia neomexicana, common names New Mexico phacelia and New Mexico scorpionweed, is a plant. The Zuni people mix the powdered root with water and use it for rashes.[1]

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.


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