Psoralidium lanceolatum | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Psoralidium |
Species: | P. lanceolatum
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Binomial name | |
Psoralidium lanceolatum | |
Synonyms | |
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Psoralidium lanceolatum (syn. Ladeania lanceolata) [1] is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by several common names, including lemon scurfpea, wild lemonweed, and dune scurfpea. [2]
It is native to western North America from central Canada to California to Texas, where it grows in sandy habitat, such as alluvial plains [1] and sagebrush. [3]
It is a perennial herb with a branching, heavily glandular stem growing 30 to 60 centimeters tall. The leaves are palmately compound, each made up of usually three linear or lance-shaped leaflets borne on a short petiole. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers emerging from a leaf axil. Each flower is under a centimeter long with a pealike corolla in shades of light purple-blue to white. The fruit is a hairy, glandular, spherical legume. [1]
The Zuni people eat the fresh flowers to treat stomachaches. [4]