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Plantago virginica L.
Virginia Plantain
USDA PLVI
Kiowa Other, Ceremonial Items
Used to make garlands or wreaths worn by old men around their heads for dances as symbol of health.
Vestal, Paul A. and Richard Evans Schultes, 1939, The Economic Botany of the Kiowa Indians, Cambridge MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 51
Rumex crispus L.
Curly Dock
USDA RUCRC
Mohegan Food, Vegetable
Combined with pigweed, mustard, plantain and nettle and used as mixed greens.
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 83
Urtica dioica L.
Stinging Nettle
USDA URDID
Mohegan Food, Vegetable
Combined with pigweed, mustard, plantain and dock and used as mixed greens.
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 83