Brassicaceae Thlaspi montanum var. fendleri (Gray) P. Holmgren

Fendler's Pennycress

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Witchcraft 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 29

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Scientific name: Thlaspi montanum var. fendleri (Gray) P. Holmgren
USDA symbol: THMOF (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Fendler's Pennycress
Family: Brassicaceae
Family (APG): Brassicaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Witchcraft Medicine
Notes: Cold infusion taken and used as lotion to protect from witches.

RECRD: 96151 id: 39835

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