Amaranthus albus L.
Common names: Prostrate Pigweed
Species details (USDA):
USDA AMAL
Documented uses
6 uses documented
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero
Food, Bread & Cake
detail...
(Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler,
1936,
Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache,
University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63,
pages 48)
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero
Food, Unspecified
detail...
(Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler,
1936,
Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache,
University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63,
pages 46)
Apache, White Mountain
Food, Unspecified
detail...
(Reagan, Albert B.,
1929,
Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona,
Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61.,
pages 155)
Cochiti
Food, Vegetable
detail...
(Castetter, Edward F.,
1935,
Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food,
University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44,
pages 16)
Navajo
Other, Ceremonial Items
detail...
(Elmore, Francis H.,
1944,
Ethnobotany of the Navajo,
Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research,
pages 45)
Navajo, Ramah
Food, Staple
detail...
(Vestal, Paul A.,
1952,
The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho,
Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94,
pages 25)