Tetraneuris scaposa
| Tetraneuris scaposa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Tetraneuris |
| Species: | T. scaposa |
| Binomial name | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa (DC.) Greene 1898 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Synonymy
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Tetraneuris scaposa, (common names stemmy four-nerve daisy[2] and stemmy hymenoxys, is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It grows in the southwestern and south-central United States (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas).[3][4][5]
Tetraneuris scaposa is a perennial herb up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. It forms a branching underground caudex sometimes producing as many as 100 above-ground stems. Leaves are concentrated low on the stem, close to the ground. Flower heads can either be one on a stem, or clustered in tight clumps. Each head has 12–26 ray flowers surrounding 25–180 disc flowers.[6]
Uses
The Zuni people use an infusion of it as an eyewash. The Zuni believe that this eyewash is not for people with a "bad heart".[7]
References
- ↑ The Plant List, Tetraneuris scaposa (DC.) Greene
- ↑ "Tetraneuris scaposa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100
- ↑ SEINet Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter description, photos, distribution map
- ↑ Flora of North America, Tetraneuris scaposa (de Candolle) Greene, 1898.
- ↑ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 60, 61)
