Poaceae Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths

Blue Grama

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 15, 16

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Scientific name: Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths
USDA symbol: BOGR2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Blue Grama
Family: Poaceae
Family (APG): Poaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Cold, compound infusion of root used internally and externally as 'life medicine.'

RECRD: 83191 id: 7444