Heimia salicifolia, Shrubby yellowcrest - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Shrubby yellowcrest, sinicuichi, sun opener, willow-leaf heimia

Botanical name & synonyms: Heimia salicifolia, Chrysolyga salicifolia, Decodon salicifolius, Ginoria flava, Ginoria syphilitica, Heimia grandiflora, Heimia linariifolia, Heimia salicifolia var. mexicana, Heimia syphilitica, Lythrum flavum, Nesaea linariifolia, Nesaea salicifolia, Nesaea syphilitica

Family: (Lythraceae)

• native to New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, Central- and South America
  

• perennial shrub
  

• 150 to 300cm
  

• medicinal plant, ethnobotany

• frost-tender
  

• weight of 1 000 seeds = 0,34 gram