Commelina dianthifolia, known as the birdbill dayflower, is a perennial herb native to mountains in the south-western United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas) and northern Mexico.Commelina dianthifolia Delile - PLANTS Profile. USDA Retrieved 25 January 2011. Petals are blue while sepals are green. The inflorescence is a scorpioid cyme and it is subtended by a boat-like spathe.
Uses An infusion of plant used by Keres people as a strengthener for weakened tuberculosis patients.Swank, George R. 1932 The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis (p. 38) The Ramah Navajo give a cold simple or compound infusion to livestock as an aphrodisiac.Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94 (p. 19)
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