Symphyotrichum falcatum
Appearance
Symphyotrichum falcatum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Symphyotrichum |
Species: | S. falcatum
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Binomial name | |
Symphyotrichum falcatum | |
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Symphyotrichum falcatum (common name white prairie aster[1] or cluster aster), is a plant.
Uses
The Zuni people mix the ground blossoms of the commutatum variety with yucca suds and used to wash newborn infants in the belief that it will make their hair grow and strengthen them.[2]
References
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Symphyotrichum falcatum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. p. 84.
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Categories:
- Symphyotrichum
- Flora of Subarctic America
- Plants used in traditional Native American medicine
- Plants described in 1834
- Flora of Canada
- Flora of the North-Central United States
- Flora of the South-Central United States
- Flora of the Southwestern United States
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Astereae stubs
- Medicinal plant stubs