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Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Hopi Food, Bread & Cake
Ground seed meal used to make bread.
Vestal, Paul A, 1940, Notes on a Collection of Plants from the Hopi Indian Region of Arizona Made by J. G. Owens in 1891, Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) 8(8):153-168, page 159
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Hopi Food, Staple
Seeds ground and mixed with corn meal.
Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 17
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Keres, Western Drug, Emetic
Infusion of leaves used as an emetic before breakfast.
Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 57
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
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 57
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Mahuna Drug, Dietary Aid
Infusion of plant taken as a reducing aid.
Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 66
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Navajo Food, Unspecified
Seeds used for food.
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 26
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Navajo, Ramah Food, Fodder
Used for sheep and horse feed.
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 17
Panicum capillare L.
Witchgrass
USDA PACA6
Tewa Fiber, Brushes & Brooms
Grass made into brooms and used to clean metates and metate boxes.
Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 64