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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