Tetraneuris scaposa

Tetraneuris scaposa (common names stemmy four-nerve daisy[2] and stemmy hymenoxys) is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It grows in the southwestern and south-central United States (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas).[3][4][5]

Tetraneuris scaposa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Genus:
Tetraneuris
Species:
T. scaposa
Binomial name
Tetraneuris scaposa
(DC.) Greene 1898
Synonyms[1]

Tetraneuris scaposa is a perennial herb up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. It forms a branching underground caudex sometimes producing as many as 100 above-ground stems. Leaves are concentrated low on the stem, close to the ground. Flower heads can either be one on a stem, or clustered in tight clumps. Each head has 12–26 ray flowers surrounding 25–180 disc flowers.[6]

Uses

The Zuni people use an infusion of it as an eyewash. The Zuni believe that this eyewash is not for people with a "bad heart".[7]

References
  1. The Plant List, Tetraneuris scaposa (DC.) Greene
  2. "Tetraneuris scaposa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100
  5. SEINet Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter description, photos, distribution map
  6. Flora of North America, Tetraneuris scaposa (de Candolle) Greene, 1898.
  7. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 60, 61)


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