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Rocky Mountain Bee Plant ethnobotany post

Tall green stems with bright purple flowers in foreground focus. Twigs and green grass in a flat plain to five large green bushes in progressive unfocus. Two hills and a pale hazy sky in the background.

'wahpe'h'eh'e, as the Lakota call it, or Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, is showing off its beautiful purple blooms right now in Agate's prairies and wetlands. It was widely used by the Lakota as well as the Southwestern tribes such as the Navajo. It could be used as a salve for insect bites and other inflammation. The leaves and stems could be boiled down to make a black dye for pottery. And it could be eaten as a great source of Vitamin A and calcium. #wildflowers #FindYourPark #Ethnobotany [NPS Photo / J. Gray: A bloom of bright purple flowers in focused foreground, with green and brown grasses, bushes and the Fossil Hills in the unfocused background]

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NPS Photo / Jason Gray

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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Code: AGFO

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Sioux County, Nebraska
Latitude: 42.421501159668, Longitude: -103.744003295898

NPS.gov Collection

07/25/2021

07/25/2021

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Saturday, August 21, 2021 3:22:04 PM

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Canon Canon, Canon EOS M6 Mark II 125, EF-M18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

1/200 sec at f / 5

41 mm

ISO 125

Sunday, July 25, 2021 3:33:51 PM

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