Psoralidium tenuiflorum

Psoralidium tenuiflorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Psoralidium
Species: P. tenuiflorum
Binomial name
Psoralidium tenuiflorum
(Pursh) Rydb.

Psoralidium tenuiflorum, the slimflower scurfpea,[1] is a plant. The Zuni people apply a poultice of moistened leaves to any body part for purification.[2]

Name used to be Psoralea tenuiflora (Pursh), Psoralidium tenuiflorum (Pursh) Rydb., and now Pediomelium tenuiflorum (Pursh) A. N. Egan.[3]

References

  1. "Psoralidium tenuiflorum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 58.
  3. "Tropicos | Name - Pediomelum tenuiflorum (Pursh) A.N. Egan". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
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