Chenopodium graveolens

Chenopodium graveolens (common name fetid goosefoot), is a plant found in the American southwest.

Chenopodium graveolens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Core eudicots
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Genus:
Chenopodium
Species:
C. graveolens
Binomial name
Chenopodium graveolens

Uses

The Zuni people steep the plant in water and inhale the vapor to treat headaches.[1]

References
  1. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 45)


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