English

gilia

Scientific Name

Ipomopsis congesta

Arapaho

neniisi3e’einoo’

Translation of the Arapaho

‘has two heads’

Gilia and the Arapaho

Drug: analgesic. Oliver Toll says that the plant of this name was a medicinal root. Murphey confirms the identity of the plant (as Gilia congesta). She says “dried blossoms ware applied in powdered form to relieve pain.”