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Brownfoot

Acourtia wrightii

Also called Wright's Desertpeony, Pink Perezzia

Brownfoot
Photo: Mike, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
U.S.A. to Mexico

About

Acourtia wrightii, common name brownfoot, is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah, southern Nevada) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas).

It is used by the Kayenta Navajo for difficult labor and as a postpartum medicine. The Hualapai also use it medicinally; in that they apply a poultice of the woolly "cotton" from the plant to open, bleeding wounds, and the Pima use it as a styptic.

Other Acourtia plants

Acourtia hintoniorum · Sacapellote · Dwarf desertpeony · Featherleaf desertpeony · Thurber's desertpeony · Desert peony

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acourtia wrightii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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