Fabaceae Lotus wrightii (Gray) Greene
Wright's Deervetch
Zuni - Drug, Witchcraft Medicine
Use documented by:
Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye, 1980, A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388, page 376
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Lotus wrightii (Gray) Greene
Scientific name: Lotus wrightii (Gray) Greene
USDA symbol: LOWR (
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Common names: Wright's Deervetch
Family: Fabaceae
Family (APG): Fabaceae
Native American Tribe: Zuni
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Witchcraft Medicine
Notes: Poultice of chewed root applied to swellings caused by being witched by a bullsnake.
RECRD: 21269 id: 21285