Xanthium orientale is a species of annual plant of the daisy family Asteraceae.[1]

Use by Native Americans

The Zuni people use the plant for multiple purposes. The chewed seeds are rubbed onto the body before the cactus ceremony to protect it from spines. A compound poultice of seeds is applied to wounds or used to remove splinters.[2] The seeds are also ground, mixed with cornmeal, made into cakes, and steamed for food.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Xanthium orientale L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  2. ^ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report. 30: 62–63.
  3. ^ Stevenson (1915), p. 71.
  4. ^ Castetter, Edward F. (1935). "Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food". University of New Mexico Bulletin. 4 (1): 1–44, 54.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthium_canadense
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