Pontederia cordata L.
Common names: Pickerelweed
Species details (USDA):
USDA POCO14
Documented uses
3 uses documented
Malecite
Drug, Contraceptive
detail...
(Mechling, W.H.,
1959,
The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs,
Anthropologica 8:239-263,
pages 259)
Micmac
Drug, Contraceptive
detail...
(Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper,
1979,
Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians,
Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68,
pages 59)
Montagnais
Drug, Panacea
detail...
(Speck, Frank G.,
1917,
Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians,
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Americanists Pp. 303-321,
pages 315)