Nyctaginaceae Abronia fragrans Nutt. ex Hook.

Snowball Sand Verbena

Navajo, Kayenta - Drug, Cathartic

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 21

View all documented uses for Abronia fragrans Nutt. ex Hook.

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Scientific name: Abronia fragrans Nutt. ex Hook.
USDA symbol: ABFR2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Snowball Sand Verbena
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Family (APG): Nyctaginaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Kayenta
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Cathartic
Notes: Plant used as a cathartic.

RECRD: 80122 id: 355

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