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Ethnobotanical Plant Amaranthus palmeri

Common Name

Pigweed

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Sort descending	Country/Region	Reference
Poison	US	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Soap	Mexico	Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press