Oenothera albicaulis

Short description: Species of flowering plant

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[1]

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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]

## Contents

* 1 Distribution
* 2 Uses
* 3 References
* 4 External links

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

## 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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