blazing prairie star

Blazing Prairie Star

Liatris spicata

Eastern Deciduous Forest

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The roots were ground and used as a pain reliever for headache, arthritis and earaches by the Cheyenne. The Cheyenne also treated communicable diseases like measles, mumps, smallpox and the average fever with blazing star root. The small feathered nuts or seeds of the blazing star were shelled and slow cooked as a foodstuff by the Paiute tribe, and the Montana Indians used the leaves as a treatment for upset stomach and an antiseptic wash.

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