Search for Elymus found 30 matches:
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Ceremonial Medicine)
Decoction of plant with other plants used as medicine to soak corn seeds before planting.
Waugh, F. W. 1916 Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation. Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines (p. 19)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Kidney Aid)
Compound decoction of roots taken for the kidneys.
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 274)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Other)
Compound decoction of plants taken for stricture.
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 274)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds formerly used for food.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 368)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Ute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds formerly gathered for food.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1909 Some Plant Names of the Ute Indians. American Anthropologist 11:27-40 (p. 34)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Iroquois Other (Fertilizer)
Decoction of roots used as a soak for "corn medicine."
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 274)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Kiowa Food (Fodder)
Foliage and lemmas used as a palatable fodder for livestock.
Vestal, Paul A. and Richard Evans Schultes 1939 The Economic Botany of the Kiowa Indians. Cambridge MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University (p. 15)
Elymus canadensis L.
Canada Wildrye; Poaceae
Kiowa Food (Fodder)
Foliage and lemmas used as a palatable fodder for livestock.
Vestal, Paul A. and Richard Evans Schultes 1939 The Economic Botany of the Kiowa Indians. Cambridge MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University (p. 15)
Elymus elymoides (Raf.) Swezey
Bottlebrush Squirreltail; Poaceae
Navajo, Ramah Food (Fodder)
Young plants used for sheep and horse feed, mature plants made animals' mouths sore.
Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94 (p. 17)
Elymus glaucus Buckl.
Blue Wildrye; Poaceae
Keres, Western Other (Unspecified)
Taxon known and named but no use was specified.
Swank, George R. 1932 The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis (p. 42)
Elymus glaucus Buckl.
Blue Wildrye; Poaceae
Karok Drug (Other)
Plant used as a medicine to settle quarrels between families or individuals.
Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford 1952 Karok Ethnobotany. Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392 (p. 380)
Elymus glaucus Buckl.
Blue Wildrye; Poaceae
Karok Food (Porridge)
Seeds parched, pounded into a flour and mixed with water into a paste.
Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford 1952 Karok Ethnobotany. Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392 (p. 380)
Elymus glaucus ssp. glaucus
Blue Wildrye; Poaceae
Costanoan Food (Staple)
Seeds used in pinole.
Bocek, Barbara R. 1984 Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington. Economic Botany 38(2):240-255 (p. 255)
Elymus hystrix var. hystrix
Eastern Bottlebrush Grass; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Ceremonial Medicine)
Decoction of leaves and reed grass rootstocks used as medicine to soak corn seeds before planting.
Waugh, F. W. 1916 Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation. Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines (p. 18)
Elymus multisetus M.E. Jones
Big Squirreltail; Poaceae
Kawaiisu Food (Porridge)
Seeds parched, pounded and cooked into a thin mush.
Zigmond, Maurice L. 1981 Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press (p. 64)
Elymus sibiricus L.
Siberian Wildrye; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds formerly used for food.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 368)
Elymus sp.
Rye Grass; Poaceae
Comanche Drug (Eye Medicine)
Single looped blades used as eye scrapers for removing cataracts.
Jones, David E. 1968 Comanche Plant Medicine. Papers in Anthropology 9:1-13 (p. 5)
Elymus sp.
Wild Rye; Poaceae
Pomo, Kashaya Food (Staple)
Grain grounded into a fine powder and used in pinole.
Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson 1980 Kashaya Pomo Plants. Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles (p. 101)
Elymus sp.
; Poaceae
Aleut Fiber (Other)
Used for weaving.
Bank, II, Theodore P. 1951 Botanical and Ethnobotanical Studies in the Aleutian Islands I. Aleutian Vegetation and Aleut Culture. Botanical and Ethnobotanical Studies Papers, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters (p. 29)
Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus
Slender Wheatgrass; Poaceae
Navajo, Ramah Drug (Veterinary Aid)
Leaves eaten by dogs, causing emesis.
Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94 (p. 15)
Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus
Slender Wheatgrass; Poaceae
Navajo, Ramah Food (Fodder)
Used for horse feed and sometimes harvested for winter use.
Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94 (p. 15)
Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus
Slender Wheatgrass; Poaceae
Thompson Food (Fodder)
Cut and fed to horses as hay.
Steedman, E.V. 1928 The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia. SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522 (p. 515)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Cherokee Drug (Orthopedic Aid)
Decoction used to wash swollen legs and infusion taken for "gravel."
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey 1975 Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History. Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co. (p. 31)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Cherokee Drug (Urinary Aid)
Infusion taken for "gravel" and "continence and bedwetting."
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey 1975 Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History. Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co. (p. 31)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Anthelmintic)
Used as a worm remedy.
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 274)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Urinary Aid)
Infusion of rhizomes and stems from another plant used for thick urine.
Rousseau, Jacques 1945 Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga. Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72 (p. 67)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Apache, White Mountain Food (Fodder)
Plant used for hay.
Reagan, Albert B. 1929 Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona. Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61. (p. 155)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Apache, White Mountain Food (Unspecified)
Seeds used for food.
Reagan, Albert B. 1929 Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona. Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61. (p. 155)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds formerly eaten.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 360)
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Okanagan-Colville Other (Containers)
Used under and over the food in pit cooking.
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy 1980 Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington. Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum (p. 52)