Fabaceae Lathyrus eucosmus Butters & St. John

Bush Vetchling

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Disinfectant

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 32

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Scientific name: Lathyrus eucosmus Butters & St. John
USDA symbol: LAEU (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Bush Vetchling
Family: Fabaceae
Family (APG): Fabaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Disinfectant
Notes: Cold infusion taken and used as a lotion for 'deer infection.'

RECRD: 88534 id: 19698

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