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 name 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.