Capparaceae Cleome multicaulis DC.

Slender Spiderflower

Navajo - Food, Special Food

Use documented by:
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 51

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Scientific name: Cleome multicaulis DC.
USDA symbol: CLMU (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Slender Spiderflower
Family: Capparaceae
Family (APG): Cleomaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Special Food
Notes: Leaves made into tea and taken at a general feast after finishing the masks for the Night Chant.

RECRD: 2883 id: 10291

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