Caryophyllaceae Arenaria fendleri Gray
Fendler's Sandwort
Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Panacea
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 26
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Arenaria fendleri Gray
Scientific name: Arenaria fendleri Gray
USDA symbol: ARFEF3 (
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Common names: Fendler's Sandwort
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Family (APG): Caryophyllaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Root used, only in the summer, as a 'life medicine.'
RECRD: 81834 id: 4717