Euphorbiaceae Argythamnia cyanophylla (Woot. & Standl.) Ingram

Charleston Mountain Silverbush

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 35

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Scientific name: Argythamnia cyanophylla (Woot. & Standl.) Ingram
USDA symbol: ARCY (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Charleston Mountain Silverbush
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Family (APG): Euphorbiaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Panacea
Notes: Root or whole plant used in summer as 'the head of the life medicine.'

RECRD: 85149 id: 4796

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