About Oenothera curtiflora W.L.Wagner & Hoch
Oenothera curtiflora W.L.Wagner & Hoch is an annual plant. It typically grows 0.2 to 2 meters tall, and very rarely reaches 3 meters. It is usually unbranched, and any branching only occurs below the flower spikes. Its leaves are 2 to 20 centimeters long, lance-shaped, and covered in soft hair. The flower spikes measure 20 to 30 centimeters long, and are covered with green flower buds. These buds open at night or before dawn, producing small flowers that are 5 millimeters in diameter with four pink petals. Among the Zuni people, a medicine man chews the fresh or dried root of this plant before sucking snakebite venom from a wound, and a poultice made from the root is applied to the wound site.
