Search for festuca found 5 matches:
Festuca brachyphylla ssp. brachyphylla
Alpine Fescue; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds 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. 369)
Festuca idahoensis Elmer
Idaho Fescue; Poaceae
Navajo, Ramah Fiber (Scouring Material)
Bunch about a foot long, tied with string or yucca fiber, used as a brush for cleaning metates.
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. 16)
Festuca sp.
; 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)
Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) Alexeev
Nodding Fescue; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Heart Medicine)
Decoction of smashed roots taken for heart disease.
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 273)
Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) Alexeev
Nodding Fescue; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Other)
Compound used as a "corn medicine."
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 273)