Agavaceae Yucca glauca Nutt.

Small Soapweed

Navajo - Drug, Laxative

Use documented by:
Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 164

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Scientific name: Yucca glauca Nutt.
USDA symbol: YUGLG2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Small Soapweed
Family: Agavaceae
Family (APG): Asparagaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Laxative
Notes: Plant used as a laxative.

RECRD: 97547 id: 44136

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