Agavaceae Yucca glauca Nutt.

Small Soapweed

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Contraceptive

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 21

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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, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Contraceptive
Notes: Rotten root used to make suds taken to induce menopause.

RECRD: 97549 id: 44143

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