User talk:MountainHollyhock

Ethnobotany source information
Thank you for your recent edit to Sphaeralcea coccinea. I do, however, have a question about the source you used regarding traditional uses of the plant. Do F. Royer & R. Dickinson give a source for their information about the use of the plant by the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy? Doing some searches in the Native American Ethnobotany Database, in Native American medicinal plants by Daniel E. Moerman, and the very specific Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians by John C. Hellson I can find no mention of the use of this species by them. I did, however, find Wildflowers of Alberta: A Guide to Common Wildflowers and Other Herbaceous Plants by Kathleen Wilkinson. It states that they "chewed scarlet mallow and applied the mucilaginous paste to scalds, sores and burns as a cooling agent." I think her source may be Plants and the Blackfoot by Alex Johnston, which is frustrating because no libraries near me appear to have a copy and I would like to look into it.

I did reword your statement to make it more specific since I think it is better to be exact rather than attributing use of a plant to all first nations since they are as distinct and heterogeneous as the different nations of Europe. 🌿 Mt B o t a n y (talk) 05:45, 28 April 2024 (UTC)