Capparaceae Cleome lutea Hook.
Yellow Spiderflower
Navajo, Kayenta - Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Use documented by:
Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 25
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Cleome lutea Hook.
Scientific name: Cleome lutea Hook.
USDA symbol: CLLUL (
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Common names: Yellow Spiderflower
Family: Capparaceae
Family (APG): Cleomaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Kayenta
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Medicine
Notes: Plant used with ceremonial tobacco in some chants.
RECRD: 84228 id: 10287