}}Ottleya wrightii, synonym Lotus wrightii, is a species of legume native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah).[[1] It is also said to occur in Nevada.[5] It is known as Wright's deervetch.]
It has yellow flowers on many stems, arising from a single root crown.
It was named after Charles Wright.[2]
The Zuni people apply a poultice of the chewed root to swellings that they believe are caused by being witched by a bullsnake.[3]
References
1. ^{{cite web|url=http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=LOWR&mapType=distribution|title=Lotus wrightii (A. Gray) Greene|work=United States Department of Agriculture: Natural Resources Conservation Service|accessdate=2014-01-23}}
2. ^1 Edmund C. Jaeger{{Google books|5xxCG3OfLO8C|Desert Wild Flowers|page=102}}
3. ^{{cite journal |author=Camazine, Scott & Robert A. Bye |year=1980 |title=A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico |journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=365–388 |pmid=6893476 |doi=10.1016/S0378-8741(80)81017-8}}