Polemoniaceae Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. aggregata

Skyrocket Gilia

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Hunting 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 39

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Scientific name: Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. aggregata
USDA symbol: IPAGA3 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Skyrocket Gilia
Family: Polemoniaceae
Family (APG): Polemoniaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Hunting Medicine
Notes: Cold infusion taken and applied to body of hunter and weapons for good luck.

RECRD: 86644 id: 17924

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