Asteraceae Tetraneuris argentea (Gray) Greene

Perkysue

Navajo, Kayenta - Drug, Ceremonial Medicine

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 44

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Scientific name: Tetraneuris argentea (Gray) Greene
USDA symbol: TEAR4 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Perkysue
Family: Asteraceae
Family (APG): Asteraceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Kayenta
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Medicine
Notes: Plant used in special ceremony for illness caused by lunar eclipse.

RECRD: 87606 id: 39679

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