Ipomopsis multiflora
species of 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".
Ipomopsis multiflora grows 15 to 50 cm (6 to 20 in) tall with short and long, glandular and unglandular hairs on its stems.
Taxonomy
In 1848 botanist Thomas Nuttall described a new species in the genus Gilia which he named Gilia multiflora. In 1891 Otto Kuntze proposed moving it to Navarretia, but Verne Grant moved it to Ipomopsis in 1956 giving the species what has become its accepted name of Ipomopsis multiflora. Together with its genus it is classified in the Polemoniaceae family and the species has three accepted subspecies.
Ipomopsis multiflora subsp. brachysiphon – Native to New Mexico
Ipomopsis multiflora subsp. multiflora – Native to Arizona, New Mexico, & Colorado
Ipomopsis multiflora subsp.
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