Oenothera Albicaulis

Oenothera albicaulis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Onagraceae
Genus:	Oenothera
Species:	O. albicaulis
Binomial name
	Oenothera albicaulis; Pursh

Short description: Species of flowering plant

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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]

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Oenothera albicaulis was originally described and published in Flora Americae Septentrionalis 2: 733. 1814 [1813] {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Oenothera albicaulis | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = April 7, 2013 }}
↑ "Name - !Oenothera albicaulis Pursh". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/23200535. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report (30): 87.
↑ "Oenothera albicaulis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=OEAL. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

External links

Picture of an Oenothera albicaulis flower, from Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness in association with Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Wikidata ☰ Q16756430 entry

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[grin-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Oenothera albicaulis was originally described and published in Flora Americae Septentrionalis 2: 733. 1814 [1813] {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Oenothera albicaulis | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = April 7, 2013 }}

[trop-2] "Name - !Oenothera albicaulis Pursh". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/23200535. Retrieved April 7, 2013.

[stevenson-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report (30): 87.

[4] "Oenothera albicaulis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=OEAL. Retrieved 21 July 2015.