Rumex orbiculatus Gray
Common names: Greater Water Dock
Species details (USDA):
USDA RUORO
Documented uses
3 uses documented
Cree, Woodlands
Drug, Antirheumatic (External)
detail...
(Leighton, Anna L.,
1985,
Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan,
Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series,
pages 58)
Meskwaki
Drug, Antidote
detail...
(Smith, Huron H.,
1928,
Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians,
Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326,
pages 237)
Potawatomi
Drug, Blood Medicine
detail...
(Smith, Huron H.,
1933,
Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians,
Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230,
pages 73)