Apocynaceae Apocynum ?floribundum Greene (pro sp.) [androsaemifolium ? cannabinum]

Intermediate Dogbane

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Disinfectant

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 39

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Scientific name: Apocynum ?floribundum Greene (pro sp.) [androsaemifolium ? cannabinum]
USDA symbol: APFL (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Intermediate Dogbane
Family: Apocynaceae
Family (APG): Apocynaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Disinfectant
Notes: Plant placed on hot rocks and applied to patient's head for 'deer infection.'

RECRD: 81457 id: 3886

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