Rubiaceae Houstonia wrightii Gray
Pygmy Bluet
Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Panacea
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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Houstonia wrightii Gray
Scientific name: Houstonia wrightii Gray
USDA symbol: HOWR (
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Common names: Pygmy Bluet
Family: Rubiaceae
Family (APG): Rubiaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Root used as a 'life medicine.'
RECRD: 87508 id: 17423