Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Common names: Curlytop Knotweed
Species details (USDA):
USDA POLA4
Documented uses
6 uses documented
Apache, White Mountain
Drug, Unspecified
detail...
(Reagan, Albert B.,
1929,
Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona,
Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61.,
pages 159)
Keres, Western
Drug, Gastrointestinal Aid
detail...
(Swank, George R.,
1932,
The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians,
University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis,
pages 62)
Navajo, Ramah
Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
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 23, 24)
Potawatomi
Drug, Febrifuge
detail...
(Smith, Huron H.,
1933,
Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians,
Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230,
pages 72)
Zuni
Drug, Cathartic
detail...
(Stevenson, Matilda Coxe,
1915,
Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians,
SI-BAE Annual Report #30,
pages 58)
Zuni
Drug, Emetic
detail...
(Stevenson, Matilda Coxe,
1915,
Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians,
SI-BAE Annual Report #30,
pages 58)