Dalea compacta
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Dalea compacta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Dalea |
Species: | D. compacta |
Binomial name | |
Dalea compacta Spreng. | |
Dalea compacta (common name compact praireclover), is a plant of the American South.
Uses
The Zuni people use the root as a poultice for sores and rashes, and an infusion of it is taken for stomachache.[1]
References
- ↑ Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye 1980 A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388 (p. 376)
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