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Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Apache, White Mountain Food, Candy
Gummy substance from the root used for chewing gum.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 158
Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Iroquois Drug, Hemorrhoid Remedy
Poultice of plants applied to piles.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 478
Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Navajo Food, Candy
Gummy substance from the root used for chewing gum.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 158
Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Okanagan-Colville Drug, Antidiarrheal
Infusion of roots and stems given to children for diarrhea.
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 84
Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Okanagan-Colville Drug, Pediatric Aid
Infusion of roots and stems given to children for diarrhea.
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 84
Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Zuni Food, Candy
Dried root gum used as chewing gum.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 68
Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Blue Lettuce
USDA LATAP 		Zuni Food, Candy
Gummy substance from the root used for chewing gum.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 158