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Hymenoxys richardsonii
Also called Colorado Rubberweed, Colorado Bitterweed, Colorado Rubberplant, Pingue Hymenoxys, Richardson's Bitterweed, Pingue Rubberplant, Pingue
A low-growing North American perennial in the daisy family, native to dry plains and mountain slopes from western Canada south to Arizona and New Mexico. It is drought tolerant and does best in full sun with sharply drained soil.
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.
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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.
Pinaleno Mountain rubberweed · South American rubberweed · Colorado Rubberweed · Bigelow's rubberweed · East View rubberweed · Brandegee's four-nerve-daisy · Hymenoxys cabrerae · Cooper's rubberweed · Graylocks Four Nerve Daisy · Intermountain rubberweed · Owl's-claws · Hymenoxys insignis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hymenoxys richardsonii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
