Salicaceae Populus tremuloides Michx.

Quaking Aspen

Okanagan-Colville - Drug, Eye Medicine

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 134

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Scientific name: Populus tremuloides Michx.
USDA symbol: POTR5 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Quaking Aspen
Family: Salicaceae
Family (APG): Salicaceae
Native American Tribe: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Eye Medicine
Notes: Infusion of young growth used as a bath for bruised eyes.

RECRD: 12955 id: 29644