Polygonaceae Eriogonum divaricatum Hook.

Divergent Buckwheat

Navajo, Kayenta - Drug, Orthopedic Aid

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 19

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Scientific name: Eriogonum divaricatum Hook.
USDA symbol: ERDI5 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Divergent Buckwheat
Family: Polygonaceae
Family (APG): Polygonaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Kayenta
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Orthopedic Aid
Notes: Poultice of plant applied to back for leg paralysis.

RECRD: 85742 id: 13991

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