Plant Details

Accepted name:: Purshia mexicana (D.Don) S.L.Welsh [Rosaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
mexican cliffrose	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cowania mexicana D.Don Trans. Linn. Soc. London 14: 575 (1825).
Cowania mexicana A.Gray Pl. Wright. 2: 55 (1853).
Cowania mexicana var. dubia Brandegee Zoe 5: 149 (1903).
Cowania purpurea Zucc. Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(2): 7 (1845).
Greggia purpurea Engelm. ex Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 1: 374 (1880).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Purshia mexicana (D. Don) Henrickson	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Purshia mexicana (D. Don) S.L. Welsh	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Purshia mexicana (D.Don) S.L.Welsh	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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