Psoralidium lanceolatum
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Psoralidium |
| Species: | P. lanceolatum
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Psoralidium lanceolatum (syn. Ladeania lanceolata)[1] is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by several common names, including lemon scurfpea, wild lemonweed, and dune scurfpea.[2]
It is native to western North America from central Canada to California to Texas, where it grows in sandy habitat, such as alluvial plains[1] and sagebrush.[3]
It is a perennial herb with a branching, heavily glandular stem growing 30 to 60 centimeters tall. The leaves are palmately compound, each made up of usually three linear or lance-shaped leaflets borne on a short petiole. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers emerging from a leaf axil. Each flower is under a centimeter long with a pealike corolla in shades of light purple-blue to white. The fruit is a hairy, glandular, spherical legume.[1]
The Zuni people eat the fresh flowers to treat stomachaches.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Ladeania lanceolata. Jepson eFlora.
- ^ Psoralidium lanceolatum. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- ^ Laedeania lanceolata. Burke Museum, University of Washington.
- ^ 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.
External links[edit]
- Psoralidium lanceolatum. USDA PLANTS.
- CalPhotos.
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