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Grindelia squarrosa
a medicinal plant of the plains Indians. It is used for bronchial problems
American Indians used the gummy secretions of curlycup gumweed to relieve asthma, bronchitis, and colic. Pawnee Indians boiled leaves and flowering tops to treat saddle sores and raw skin. Today, medicinal uses include treatment of bronchial spasm, whooping cough, asthma, and rashes caused by poison ivy. Curlycup gumweed extract is valuable as a stimulant, sedative, astringent, purgative, emetic, diuretic, antiseptic, and disinfectant.
I thought it was G. squarrosa but the leaves are not serrated. Maybe G. laciniata or G. nana?
Spotted on Jun 22, 2011
Submitted on Jun 22, 2011
