Photo Details
August
22, 2004 , LeBarron
Point, Utah County, Utah - ©Nicky
Davis
Characteristics
Syn. Matchbrush
Broom
Snakeweeds have both ray flowers and disk flowers while Rabbit
Brushes have no ray flowers. Broom
snakeweed
is utilized by mule deer and pronghorn antelope. It can comprise up to
28% of the pronghorn diet. Different native American tribes had
different
uses for it. Some used it as an herbal steam for respiratory ailments,
others used the flower concentrate as a laxative for horses, some used
it as a treatment for coughs and dizziness, some rubbed the ashes of
the
burned Snakeweed . on their bodies
for headache
and some applied it to snake and insect bites, after chewing it up. The
Comanche tribe made brooms from it to clean their homes.
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