Asteraceae Brickellia brachyphylla (Gray) Gray

Plumed Brickellbush

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Disinfectant

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 49

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Scientific name: Brickellia brachyphylla (Gray) Gray
USDA symbol: BRBR2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Plumed Brickellbush
Family: Asteraceae
Family (APG): Asteraceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Disinfectant
Notes: Root used with 'lizard figurine' for prenatal 'lizard infection.'

RECRD: 83249 id: 7537

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