Apiaceae Osmorhiza purpurea (Coult. & Rose) Suksdorf

Purple Sweetroot

Songish - Drug, Love Medicine

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 89

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Scientific name: Osmorhiza purpurea (Coult. & Rose) Suksdorf
USDA symbol: OSPU (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Purple Sweetroot
Family: Apiaceae
Family (APG): Apiaceae
Native American Tribe: Songish
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Love Medicine
Notes: Roots used by girls as love charms.

RECRD: 47694 id: 25057

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