Malvaceae Sidalcea neomexicana Gray
New Mexico Checkermallow
Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Internal Medicine
Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 36
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Sidalcea neomexicana Gray
Scientific name: Sidalcea neomexicana Gray
USDA symbol: SINEN (
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Common names: New Mexico Checkermallow
Family: Malvaceae
Family (APG): Malvaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Internal Medicine
Notes: Cold infusion of plant taken for internal injury.
RECRD: 95175 id: 37955