​Yerba Mansa, Lizard's Tail, Yerba del Manso,Anemopsis Californica,Lizard Tail Family (Saururaceae)

Found in wet alkaline or saline soil
Seen blooming in June by CR 56 in Ohkay Owingeh
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Yerba Mansa grows to 12 inches high with waxy, mostly basal leaves which form a dense ground cover. Flower heads are a fragrant, showy, cone-shaped spike over one inch long surrounded by four to nine white to reddish petal-like bracts. The spike consists of about 100 densely packed greenish flowers which have a small white bract but no petals. In the fall, the whole plant turns brick-red in color. Yerba Mansa is an important medicine plant used as a disinfectant, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and a general anti-microbial. It is used as a treatment for wounds, cold and flu symptoms, pain and inflammation, as well as lung, circulatory, urinary, and digestive tract ailments. Tea made from the leaves and roots is used to treat uterine cancer, ease menstrual cramps, induce conception, staunch excessive bleeding after childbirth and as a treatment for other gynecological conditions, and to treat venereal sores and ulcers. Source.
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