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Amaranthus albus L.
Prostrate Pigweed
USDA AMAL
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Bread & Cake
Seeds winnowed, ground into flour and used to make bread.
Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 48
Amaranthus albus L.
Prostrate Pigweed
USDA AMAL
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Unspecified
Eaten without preparation or cooked with green chile and meat or animal bones.
Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 46
Amaranthus albus L.
Prostrate Pigweed
USDA AMAL
Apache, White Mountain Food, Unspecified
Seeds used for food.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 155
Amaranthus albus L.
Prostrate Pigweed
USDA AMAL
Cochiti Food, Vegetable
Young plants eaten as greens.
Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 16
Amaranthus albus L.
Prostrate Pigweed
USDA AMAL
Navajo Other, Ceremonial Items
Used, with many different plants, to smoke for lewdness, which was performed at the Coyote Chant.
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 45
Amaranthus albus L.
Prostrate Pigweed
USDA AMAL
Navajo, Ramah Food, Staple
Threshed seeds ground into flour.
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 25