Apocynaceae

Asclepias tuberosa

8 June 2017 // 0 Comments

Ethnobotany. Asclepias tuberosa has been used as medicine by the following First Peoples: Cherokee, Delaware, Iroquois, Menominee, Mohegan, Navajo, Omaha, Ponca, and Rappahannock.  Recent researches. Asclepias tuberosa Materia Medica. According [...]

Asclepias speciosa

7 June 2017 // 0 Comments

Ethnobotany. Asclepias speciosa has been used as a food or as medicine by the following First Peoples: Acoma, Apache, Cheyenne, Chiricahua, Crow, Flathead, Keres, Hopi, Laguna, Lakota, Miwok, Mescalero, Montana, Navajo, Okanagan-Colville, Paiute, [...]

Asclepias latifolia

28 May 2017 // 0 Comments

Ethnobotany. The Isleta People used the ground leaf and stem powder to be inhaled for catarrhs as mentioned in “The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians”. Jones, Volney H. 1931, University of New Mexico. Description. Plant: perennial [...]