Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung
Common names: Blue Lettuce
Species details (USDA):
USDA LATAP
Documented uses
7 uses documented
Apache, White Mountain
Food, Candy
detail...
(Reagan, Albert B.,
1929,
Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona,
Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61.,
pages 158)
Iroquois
Drug, Hemorrhoid Remedy
detail...
(Herrick, James William,
1977,
Iroquois Medical Botany,
State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis,
pages 478)
Navajo
Food, Candy
detail...
(Reagan, Albert B.,
1929,
Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona,
Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61.,
pages 158)
Okanagan-Colville
Drug, Antidiarrheal
detail...
(Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy,
1980,
Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington,
Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum,
pages 84)
Okanagan-Colville
Drug, Pediatric Aid
detail...
(Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy,
1980,
Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington,
Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum,
pages 84)
Zuni
Food, Candy
detail...
(Stevenson, Matilda Coxe,
1915,
Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians,
SI-BAE Annual Report #30,
pages 68)
Zuni
Food, Candy
detail...
(Reagan, Albert B.,
1929,
Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona,
Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61.,
pages 158)