Astragalus amphioxys

Astragalus amphioxys, common name crescent milkvetch, is a plant found in the American southwest.[1]

Crescent milkvetch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Astragalus
Species:
A. amphioxys
Binomial name
Astragalus amphioxys

Uses

The Zuni use the plant medicinally. The fresh or dried root is chewed by a medicine man before sucking snakebite and poultice applied to wound.[2]

References

  1. https://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Pink%20Enlarged%20Photo%20Pages/astragalus%20amphioxys.htm
  2. Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye 1980 A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388 p. 376


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