Asteraceae Cirsium neomexicanum Gray
New Mexico Thistle
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 50
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Cirsium neomexicanum Gray
Scientific name: Cirsium neomexicanum Gray
USDA symbol: CINE (
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Common names: New Mexico Thistle
Family: Asteraceae
Family (APG): Asteraceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Root used as a 'life medicine.'
RECRD: 84119 id: 9966