Oenothera_albicaulis

<i>Oenothera albicaulis</i>

Oenothera albicaulis

Species of flowering plant

Oenothera albicaulis is a New World plant in the evening primrose family. It is known by the common names prairie evening-primrose,[2] white-stem evening-primrose,[1] whitish evening primrose,[3] or whitest evening primrose.[4]

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Oenothera albicaulis

Distribution

Oenothera albicaulis is native to North America, in the United States (Arizona; Colorado; Montana; New Mexico; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Texas; and Utah), and in Mexico (in Chihuahua state).[1]

Uses

The Zuni people rub the chewed blossoms on the bodies of young girls so that they can dance well and ensure rain.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Oenothera albicaulis was originally described and published in Flora Americae Septentrionalis 2: 733. 1814 [1813] "Oenothera albicaulis". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Name - !Oenothera albicaulis Pursh". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  3. [3]
    Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report (30): 87.
  4. [4]
    USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Oenothera albicaulis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 21 July 2015.


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