Ottleya wrightii

Ottleya wrightii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Ottleya
Species:
O. wrightii
Binomial name
Ottleya wrightii
(A.Gray) D.D.Sokoloff
Synonyms
  • Acmispon wrightii (A.Gray) Brouillet
  • Anisolotus wrightii (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Hosackia wrightii A.Gray
  • Lotus wrightii (A.Gray) Greene
Acmispon wrightii, also known as Lotus wrightii, in Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, US.

Ottleya wrightii, synonym Lotus wrightii, is a species of legume native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah). It is also said to occur in Nevada. It is known as Wright's deervetch.

It has yellow flowers on many stems, arising from a single root crown. It was named after Charles Wright.

The Zuni people apply a poultice of the chewed root to swellings that they believe are caused by being witched by a bullsnake.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ottleya wrightii (A.Gray) D.D.Sokoloff". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  2. ↑ "Lotus wrightii (A. Gray) Greene". United States Department of Agriculture: Natural Resources Conservation Service. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  3. 1 2 Edmund C. JaegerDesert Wild Flowers, p. 102, at Google Books
  4. ↑ 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.