Loasaceae Mentzelia multiflora var. multiflora

Adonis Blazingstar

Navajo, Kayenta - Drug, Ceremonial Medicine

Use documented by:
Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 32

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Scientific name: Mentzelia multiflora var. multiflora
USDA symbol: MEMUM2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Adonis Blazingstar
Family: Loasaceae
Family (APG): Loasaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Kayenta
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Medicine
Notes: Plant used as fumigant for collared lizard ceremony.

RECRD: 89711 id: 22914

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