Eriogonum alatum

Eriogonum alatum
On Cedar Mesa in Grand Gulch Primitive Area, southwestern Utah
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Polygonaceae
Genus:Eriogonum
Species: E. alatum
Binomial name
Eriogonum alatum

Eriogonum alatum, with the common names winged buckwheat and winged eriogonum, is a species of buckwheat.

The plant is native to the western Great Plains, the Southwestern United States, and Chihuahua state in México.[1]

Varieties

Varieties include:[1]

  • Eriogonum alatum var. alatum
  • Eriogonum alatum var. glabriusculum

Uses

Among the Zuni people, the root is eaten as an emetic for stomachaches.[2] An infusion of the powdered root is taken after a fall and to relieve general misery.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 GRIN-Global Web v 1.9.7.1: taxonomy of Eriogonum alatum
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 49).


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