Onagraceae Gayophytum ramosissimum Torr. & Gray

Pinyon Groundsmoke

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Hemostat

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 37

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Scientific name: Gayophytum ramosissimum Torr. & Gray
USDA symbol: GARA2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Pinyon Groundsmoke
Family: Onagraceae
Family (APG): Onagraceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Hemostat
Notes: Poultice applied to cuts as a hemostatic.

RECRD: 86493 id: 15750

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