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The Menominis considered the butterfly milkweed, which they called the 'deceiver,' one of their most important medicines.

The Dakotas used the butterfly milkweed as an emetic. The Omaha tribe used butterfly milkweed medicine for rites belonging to the Shell Society. Butterfly milkweed root was also chewed and placed on wounds, or dried, pulverized, and blown into wounds. The Omahas and Poncas ate the raw root of the butterfly milkweed for bronchial and pulmonary troubles. Butterfly milkweed has many medicinal uses. The young shoots, stems, flower buds, immature fruits, and roots of butterfly milkweed were boiled and eaten as a vegetable by various indigenous groups of eastern and mid-western America.

Often this is accomplished by rolling the fibers on the thigh, while twisting them together. The cord is formed by twisting the fiber opposite each other and twining them together. The bark is removed and the fibers released by first rubbing between the hands and then drawing the fibers over a hard surface. Milkweed fibers are sometimes mixed with fibers of Indian-hemp (Apocynum cannabinum). The dried stalks are split open to release the fibers. Milkweed stems are collected after the stalks senesce in late fall to early winter. Milkweeds supply tough fibers for making cords and ropes, and for weaving a coarse cloth. Pueblo people ate green milkweed pods and uncooked roots from one of the species that forms fleshy tubers underground. At the Zuni Pueblo, the silky seed fibers are spun on a hand-held wooden spindle and made into yarn and woven into fabric, especially for dancers. Tewa-speaking people of the Rio Grande still make string and rope from these fibers. Fibers from the stems of milkweed have been identified in prehistoric textiles in the Pueblo region. USESĮthnobotanic: Milkweed has been used for fiber, food, and medicine by people all over the United States and southern Canada. The numerous seeds each have a tuft of long white hairs at the tip. Fruits are hairy, spindle-shaped pods 8-15 cm long.

Each flower has 5 petals, bent downward, orange to red or sometimes yellow, topped by a crown of 5 erect hoods, each one containing a short horn. The flowers are in showy, rounded to flat-topped groups near the ends of branches. The leaves are alternate, simple, crowded, lance-shaped, 5-10 cm long, shiny green, smooth above and velvety beneath. There is a watery sap within the stems and leaves.

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The species name, tuberosa, means full of swellings or knobs, referring to the enlarged root system.' Butterfly milkweed stems are hairy, erect, and grow in numerous clumps.

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