Apiaceae Eryngium yuccifolium Michx.

Button Eryngo

Meskwaki - Drug, Ceremonial Medicine

Use documented by:
Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 248

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Scientific name: Eryngium yuccifolium Michx.
USDA symbol: ERYUY (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Button Eryngo
Family: Apiaceae
Family (APG): Apiaceae
Native American Tribe: Meskwaki
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Medicine
Notes: Leaves and fruit formerly introduced into rattlesnake medicine song and dance.

RECRD: 85897 id: 14262

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