Apiaceae Heracleum maximum Bartr.

Common Cowparsnip

Okanagan-Colville - Drug, Orthopedic Aid

Use documented by:
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 62

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Scientific name: Heracleum maximum Bartr.
USDA symbol: HEMA80 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Common Cowparsnip
Family: Apiaceae
Family (APG): Apiaceae
Native American Tribe: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Orthopedic Aid
Notes: Heated poultice of sliced, pounded roots applied to sore backs.

RECRD: 12323 id: 16884

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