Grindelia nuda
Grindelia nuda | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Astereae |
Genus: | Grindelia |
Species: | G. nuda |
Binomial name | |
Grindelia nuda Wood | |
Grindelia nuda (common name curly gumweed), is a plant. The Zuni people use G. nuda var. aphanactis medicinally. They use a poultice of flower for ant bites.[1] Fresh or dried root is chewed by the medicine man before sucking snakebite and poultice applied to the wound.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Camazine, Scott & Robert A. Bye (1980). "A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2 (4): 365–388. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(80)81017-8. PMID 6893476.