Eupatorium rugosum Hautt Native American Names                 No Names Given

Description                 Flower heads are in flat-topped or domesnaped clusters, and leaf margins are variously serrate. The leafs look like blade simple, ovate the broadly aovate(6-15cm long, 3-12cm wide) smaller upward, margins entire. The flowers are in clean white color and after blooming small seeds with fluffy tails are released to blow in the wind. This plant is Perennial and is a native forb. It flowers August through  October.  The plant grows through rhizomes and seeds

Location and Habitat                 Most common in the eastern one-half of Nebraska in damp and shady woodland, floodplains, and pastures. They are found in woods and bushed thickets, and bloom and mid to late summer or fall. It can be found near the Macy pow-wow grounds. Its habitat is near the damp and shady places. I expected to find it near north of the school with all the other big plants.

 

Uses                 Native Americans used plants of the genus to reduce palm and fever and to treat a variety of other ailments. Milk sickness acquired from drinking milk from cattle poisoned by eating white snakeroot. It thought to be the cause of death of Abraham Lincolns man. It was a serious problem for pioneers in eastern Nebraska. The root is diaphoretic, diuretic, febrifuge, stimulant, and tonic. It has been used in the treatment of diarrhea, gravel, and urinary diseases. It has also been used herbal sweat bath to enguarge sweating. A decoration or infusion of the root has been chewed and held in the mouth as a treament for thoothache.

                                                                                               By Brianna Wolfe

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