Wright's Thelypody Thelypodium wrightii Mustard Family (Brassicaceae)

​The Bloom Blog
Blooming this week in the environs of Abiquiú
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By Wildflowers of the Southern Rocky Mountains

Found on rocky hillsides, in canyons
Seen blooming in August in Plaza Blanca

Wright’s Thelypody grows to seven feet tall with many branches tipped by showy flower heads that look like bottlebrushes. Leaves have smooth or toothed edges. The flowers are white to lavender with four petals and grow in loose clusters above many 3-inch-long thin seed pods. The pods grow horizontally to the stem or curve downwards. Traditionally Wright’s Thelypody has been used as a dermatological aid and as an eye medicine. Young plants were made into a stew with wild onions, wild celery, tallow or bits of meat. The Navajo tied a plant to the cradle bow to make baby sleep and the Tewa used it to make paint for pottery. Source.

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