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Family • Fabaceae
Kamañgi
Parosela glandulosa (Blanco) Merr.
FOXTAIL PRAIRIE CLOVER

Scientific names Common names
Amorpha glandulosa Blanco Agogo (Tag.)
Parosela glandulosa (Blanco) Merr. Chang-parang (Tag.)
Parosela nigra Rose
 Dura (Pang.)
Dalea alopecuroides Blanco Durang-parang (Tag.)
Dalea nigra Mart. & Gal. Kamañgi (Tag.)
Dalea glandulosa Merr. Sampalok-sampalokan (Tag.)
Dalea leporina (Alton) Bullock Foxtail (Engl.)
  Prairie clover (Engl.)

 

Botany
Kamañgi is an erect, branched, nearly smooth herb, 30 to 60 cm high. Stems are reddish or purplish. Leaves are about 3 cm long. Leaflets are linear to narrowly oblong, 4 to 10 mm long, prominently glandular-punctate beneath. Spikes are dense, capitate ovoid to oblong, 1 to 2 cm long. Flowers are very numerous, each subtended by a lanceolate, long-acuminate, hairy, glandular

Distribution
Abundant on open dry slopes at low and medium altitudes, ascending up to 1,300 meters.
Introduced from Mexico.

Parts used
Leaves, stems, roots.

Uses
Folkloric
Decoction of roots taken as a cold drink for hemoptysis.
Juice of fresh leaves used as vulnerary, the baggase applied as cataplasm on wounds.
Ash of leaves and stems used as cicatrizant.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Last Update September 2011
IMAGE SOURCE: Public Domain / Dalea leporina (Aiton) Bullock foxtail prairie clove / FBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 367. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society / USDA
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