Fabaceae Vicia americana Muhl. ex Willd.

American Vetch

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 33

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Scientific name: Vicia americana Muhl. ex Willd.
USDA symbol: VIAMA3 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: American Vetch
Family: Fabaceae
Family (APG): Fabaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Plant used as 'life medicine.'

RECRD: 97209 id: 43195

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