Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa USDA MESAS |
Costanoan Drug, Ear Medicine Poultice of heated leaves applied to the ear for earaches. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 19 |
Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa USDA MESAS |
Keres, Western Other, Unspecified Taxon known and named but no use was specified. Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 53 |
Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa USDA MESAS |
Navajo, Ramah Food, Fodder Plant cultivated, harvested, dried, stacked or stored in hogans and fed to livestock in winter. 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 32 |
Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa USDA MESAS |
Okanagan-Colville Food, Spice Plants placed above and below black tree lichen and camas in cooking pits for the sweet flavor. 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 105 |
Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa USDA MESAS |
Shuswap Food, Fodder Used for horse feed. Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 64 |