Hymenoxys richardsonii
{{Short description|Species of plant}}
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| image = Hymenoxys richardsonii (7461244850).jpg
| image_caption = Bozeman, Montana
| status = {{TNCStatus}}
| status_system = TNC
| genus = Hymenoxys
| species = richardsonii
| authority = (Hook.) Cockerell 1904
| synonyms_ref = [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2702711 Tropicos, Hymenoxys richardsonii (Hook.) Cockerell ][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-65948 The Plant List, Hymenoxys richardsonii (Hook.) Cockerell ]
| synonyms =
- Picradenia richardsonii Hook. 1833
- Actinea richardsonii (Hook.) Kuntze
- Actinella richardsonii (Hook.) Nutt.
- Hymenoxys floribunda (A.Gray) Cockerell
- Hymenoxys olivacea Cockerell
}}
Hymenoxys richardsonii, the pingue hymenoxys or pingue rubberweed, is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is widespread across the western United States and western Canada from Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas north as far as Alberta and Saskatchewan.[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Hymenoxys%20richardsonii.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map]
;Varieties[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250066995 Flora of North America, Hymenoxys richardsonii (Hooker) Cockerell, 1904. Richardson’s bitterweed, pingue rubberweed ]
- Hymenoxys richardsonii var. floribunda (A.Gray) K.F.Parker – Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah
- Hymenoxys richardsonii var. richardsonii – Alberta, Saskatchewan, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming
Uses
Among the Zuni people of New Mexico, a poultice of the chewed root applied to sores and rashes, and an infusion of the root is used for stomachache.{{cite journal |author=Camazine, Scott & Robert A. Bye |year=1980 |title=A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico |journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=365–388 |pmid=6893476 |doi=10.1016/S0378-8741(80)81017-8}}
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Category:Flora of Northern America
Category:Plants used in traditional Native American medicine
Category:Plants described in 1833
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