Rubiaceae Galium fendleri Gray
Fendler's Bedstraw
Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 45
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Galium fendleri Gray
Scientific name: Galium fendleri Gray
USDA symbol: GAFE (
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Common names: Fendler's Bedstraw
Family: Rubiaceae
Family (APG): Rubiaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Medicine
Notes: Plant used as a ceremonial emetic.
RECRD: 86409 id: 15501