Caryophyllaceae Silene drummondii var. drummondii

Drummond's Campion

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Panacea

Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 27

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Scientific name: Silene drummondii var. drummondii
USDA symbol: SIDRD (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Drummond's Campion
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Family (APG): Caryophyllaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Root used as a 'life medicine.'

RECRD: 89233 id: 37982

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