Medicago sativa L.
Common names: Alfalfa
Species details (USDA):
USDA MESAS
Documented uses
5 uses documented
Costanoan
Drug, Ear Medicine
detail...
(Bocek, Barbara R.,
1984,
Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington,
Economic Botany 38(2):240-255,
pages 19)
Keres, Western
Other, Unspecified
detail...
(Swank, George R.,
1932,
The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians,
University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis,
pages 53)
Navajo, Ramah
Food, Fodder
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 32)
Okanagan-Colville
Food, Spice
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 105)
Shuswap
Food, Fodder
detail...
(Palmer, Gary,
1975,
Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany,
Syesis 8:29-51,
pages 64)