Ipomopsis multiflora, known as manyflowered gilia or manyflowered ipomopsis, is a short-lived perennial flowering plant. Among the Zuni people, the powdered whole plant is applied to face to cure headache, and it is also applied to wounds. The crushed blossoms are smoked in corn husks to "relieve strangulation".
Ipomopsis multiflora grows tall with short and long, glandular and unglandular hairs on its stems.
Taxonomy In 1848 botanist Thomas Nuttall described a new species in the genus Gilia which he named Gilia multiflora. In 1891 Otto Kuntze proposed moving it to Navarretia, but Verne Grant moved it to Ipomopsis in 1956 giving the species what has become its accepted name of Ipomopsis multiflora. Together with its genus it is classified in the Polemoniaceae family and the species has three accepted subspecies.
Ipomopsis multiflora subsp. brachysiphon – Native to New Mexico Ipomopsis multiflora subsp. multiflora – Native to Arizona, New Mexico, & Colorado Ipomopsis multiflora subsp. whitingii – Native to Arizona & New Mexico
Ipomopsis multiflora has eight synonyms of the species or one of its three subspecies.
Table of Synonyms Name Year Rank Synonym of: Notes Gilia brachysiphon 1913 species subsp. brachysiphon ≡ hom. Gilia exserta 1905 species subsp. multiflora = het. Gilia multiflora 1848 species I. multiflora ≡ hom. Gilia multiflora var. glabristyla 1921 variety subsp. multiflora = het. Gilia multiflora var. polyantha 1907 variety subsp. multiflora = het. Gilia polyantha var. brachysiphon 1943 variety subsp. brachysiphon ≡ hom. Gilia polyantha var. whitingii 1943 variety subsp. whitingii ≡ hom. Navarretia multiflora 1891 species I. multiflora ≡ hom. Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym; = heterotypic synonym
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