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Nama hispida
Also called Purple Mat, Sandbells, Rough Nama
Nama hispida is an annual flowering plant in the family Namaceae. Common names include sand bells, rough nama, and bristly nama. It is native to the American desert southwest and throughout northern and central Mexico.
Nama hispida occurs in the southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico, largely throughout the Chihuahuan Desert. Its range extends from California east to Oklahoma and Texas. The distribution continues south into Baja and mainland Mexico, until the state of Veracruz.
Nama hispida has been used by the Navajo to treat spider bites.
Ground nama · California fiddleleaf · Purplemat · Leafy Nama · Depressed fiddleleaf · Lobb's fiddleleaf · Eggleaf fiddleleaf · Rothrock's fiddleleaf · Mud fiddleleaf · Whitewhisker fiddleleaf · Fiddleleaf
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nama hispida 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.
