Rosaceae Physocarpus capitatus (Pursh) Kuntze

Pacific Ninebark

Kwakiutl - Drug, Cathartic

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 289

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Scientific name: Physocarpus capitatus (Pursh) Kuntze
USDA symbol: PHCA11 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Pacific Ninebark
Family: Rosaceae
Family (APG): Rosaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Cathartic
Notes: Root extract used as a purgative.

RECRD: 91227 id: 26772

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