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Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt.
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Cherokee Drug, Antidiarrheal
Infusion of root taken for flux.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt.
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Cherokee Dye, Red
Used to make a red dye.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt.
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Lakota Food, Beverage
Used to make tea.
Rogers, Dilwyn J, 1980, Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule) People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota, St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Scoiety, page 37
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Apache, White Mountain Dye, Red
Used as a dark, rich red dye.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 156
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Plant used in ceremonial chant lotion.
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
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Disinfectant
Cold infusion of dried plant taken with salt for 'lightning infection.'
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
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Panacea
Root used as a 'life medicine.'
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
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Venereal Aid
Plant used as fumigant for sexual infection.
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
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Zuni Drug, Reproductive Aid
Infusion of whole plant, except for the root, taken by women desiring female babies.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 84
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Zuni Dye, Red
Blossoms used with other flowers as a mahogany red dye for yarn.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 80
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
Golden Tickseed
USDA COTIT
Zuni Food, Beverage
Plant formerly used to make a hot beverage until the introduction of coffee by traders. The plant was folded while fresh, a number of folds being attached one below the other, and hung on the wall to dry. When the beverage was desired, a fold was detached from the wall and used to make a hot beverage.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 66