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Eriogonum alatum, with the common names winged buckwheat and winged eriogonum, is a species of buckwheat.

Eriogonum alatum
On Cedar Mesa in Grand Gulch Primitive Area, southwestern Utah
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Eriogonum
Species:
E. alatum
Binomial name
Eriogonum alatum

The plant is native to the western Great Plains, the Southwestern United States, and Chihuahua state in México.[1]


Varieties


Varieties include:[1]


Uses


Among the Zuni people, the root is eaten as an emetic for stomachaches.[2] An infusion of the powdered root is taken after a fall and to relieve general misery.[3]


References


  1. GRIN-Global Web v 1.9.7.1: taxonomy of Eriogonum alatum
  2. Camazine, Scott & Robert A. Bye (1980). "A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2 (4): 365–388. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(80)81017-8. PMID 6893476.
  3. Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 49).



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