Pluchea sericea

 Pluchea sericea (arrow weed) (cachanilla)

Asteraceae



  • La cachanilla se usa para hacer flechas, como alimento y como medicina.
  • Los kumiai usab las ramas flexibles y frondosas para formar paredes o material para techos en casas tradicionales, ramadas, cortavientos, cercas, jaulas pequeñas, trampas y otras estructuras.
  • Según Bean y Saubel, los cahuilla recolectaban las raíces de plantas jóvenes para asar y comer.
  • Jon M. recuerda que sus familiares lo usaban en una infusión y una compresa de las hojas para el ganado, cuando tenían problemas estomacales, infecciones o fiebre. "Etnobotónica kumiai, Micahel Wilken-Robertson."
  • Arrow weed is a tall willow-like shrub with straight, slender branches reaching to 10-12 feet. It occurs along river channels, in palm oases, and other wetland sites throughout the Mojave and Sonoran deserts and particularly abundant along the flood plain of the Colorado River. Arrow name comes from Native American use of its stem to make arrow shafts.  "California Desert Plants, Philip W Runder, Robert J Gustafson, Michael E Kauffmann."
  • Willow-like, erect shrub 1-4 m. tall; herbage silvery-silky; leaves linear to lanceolate, entire, acute, sessile, 1-4 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, often densely clothing branches; inflorescences of small, compact, corymbose clusters of heads on terminal and on short, lateral branches; heads 10-15 mm. high; phyllaries to 4 mm. high, the outer phyllaries ovate, coriaceous, more or less woolly and glandular, the inner ones narrower, thinner, glabrous; achenes glabrous; pappus bristles of central flowers crinkly and bent at the slightly dilated top, those of marginal flowers neither crinkly nor dilated. Forming dense thickets in river bottoms and wet places: cismontane southern California, to Colorado and Mojave deserts and Inyo County; east to Texas. "A Flora of the Marshes of California. Herbert L. Mason".

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