Ottleya wrightii

Ottleya wrightii, synonym Lotus wrightii, is a species of legume native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah).[1][2] It is also said to occur in Nevada.[3] It is known as Wright's deervetch.

Ottleya wrightii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Ottleya
Species:
O. wrightii
Binomial name
Ottleya wrightii
(A.Gray) D.D.Sokoloff[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Acmispon wrightii (A.Gray) Brouillet
  • Anisolotus wrightii (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Hosackia wrightii A.Gray
  • Lotus wrightii (A.Gray) Greene

It has yellow flowers on many stems, arising from a single root crown. It was named after Charles Wright.[3]

The Zuni people apply a poultice of the chewed root to swellings that they believe are caused by being witched by a bullsnake.[4]

References
  1. "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. 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.


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