Asteraceae Machaeranthera parviflora Gray

Smallflower Tansyaster

Navajo - Drug, Cathartic

Use documented by:
Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 148

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Scientific name: Machaeranthera parviflora Gray
USDA symbol: MAPA (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Smallflower Tansyaster
Family: Asteraceae
Family (APG): Asteraceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Cathartic
Notes: Plant used as a purgative.

RECRD: 82783 id: 21729

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