California Native Plant References & Works Cited

References

  • Baker, Marc A. “The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California.” Humboldt State University: Arcata, 1981.
  • Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford. “Miwok Material Culture. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee.” 2 (1933): 173.
  • Bean, John and Katherine Saubel. Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Malki Museum Press: Banning, 1972.
  • Beanfield, Harriet and Efrem Korngold. Between Heaven and Earth. Ballantine Books: New York, 1991.
  • Bocek, Barbara R. “Ethnobotany of the Costanoan Indians, California: Based on Collections by John P. Harrington.” Economic Botany 38 (1984): 240-55.
  • Böhm, Bruce A., and Tod F. Stuessy. Flavonoids of the Sunflower Family (Asteraceae). Springer: Vienna, 2001. [Includes Table 8–9 listing Hazardia exudate flavonoids.]
  • Burits, M., Bucar, F. “Antioxidant activity of Ocimum basilicum L. essential oil.” Food Chemistry 83.4 (2003): 581–586. [Includes ocimene-related monoterpene discussion.]
  • Cai, Zi-Min et al. “1,8-Cineole: a review of source, biological activities, and application.” Journal of Asian Natural Products Research 23,10 (2021): 938-954.
  • Catty, Suzanne. Hydrosols: The Next Aromatherapy. Healing Arts Press: Rochester, 2001.
  • Chestnut, V. K. “Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California.” Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7 (1902): 295-408.
  • Clark, W. D. “Flavonoid glycosides in the genus Hazardia (Asteraceae).” Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 6 (1978): 93–96. [Describes internal quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, luteolin, and apigenin glycosides.]
  • Clark, W. D., and E. Wollenweber. “Flavonoid aglycones in the leaf resin of Hazardia squarrosa var. grindelioides.” Phytochemistry 24 (1985): 1122–1123. [Documents 33 surface flavonoid exudates.]
  • Cowen, Eliot. Plant Spirit Medicine. Swan Raven & Company: Columbus, 1995.
  • Curtin, L. S. M. “Some Plants Used by the Yuki Indians II: Food Plants.” The Masterkey 31 (1957): 85-94.
  • da Silva, J. K. R., Maia, J. G. S., et al. “Antifungal and antibacterial activities of ocimene-rich essential oils from Amazonian species.” Journal of Essential Oil Research 25.1 (2013): 34–40.
  • Elpel, Thomas J. Botany in a Day. Hops: Pony, 1998.
  • Fontaine, Pauline, et al. "Chemical composition and antinociceptive activity of California sagebrush (Artemisia californica)." J. Pharmacogn. Phytother 5.1 (2013): 1-11.
  • Fleming, M. C., Hester, V., Allison, B. J., et al. (2018). “Immunomodulatory and Antibacterial Properties of the Chumash Medicinal Plant Trichostema lanatum.” Medicines 5(2):25. [Full text; methanolic extract TNF-α & antimicrobial data.]
  • Foster, Steven and Christopher Hobbs. Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 2002.
  • Fowler, Catherine S. Willards Z. Park's Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada 1933-1940. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, 1989.
  • Gifford, E. W. “Ethnographic Notes on the Southwestern Pomo.” Anthropological Records 25 (1967): 10-15.
  • Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson. Kashaya Pomo Plants. University of California, Los Angeles, 1980.
  • Guardia T. et al. “Mucus Synthesis and Sulfhydryl Groups in Cytoprotection Mediated by Dehydroleucodine, a Sesquiterpene Lactone.” Journal of Natural Products 57 (1994): 507-9.
  • Hedges, Ken. “Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany.” San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes 20 (1986): 39.
  • Heizer and Elsasser. The Natural World of the California Indians. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1980.
  • Hinton, Leanne. “Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany.” Journal of California Anthropology 2 (1975): 214-222.
  • Holmes, Peter. Clinical Aromatherapy: Essays and Essential Oil Profiles. Snow Lotus Press: Boulder, 2001.
  • Holmes, Peter. The Energetics of Western Herbs. Snow Lotus Press: Boulder, 1997.
  • Holmes, Peter. Notes from Using Essential Oils in Chinese Medicine. 2002.
  • Jegal, J., Ahn, J-H., Kim, Y-D., et al. (2021). “Inhibitory Effects of Luteolin-7-Methyl Ether on TNF-α/IFN-γ-Induced Inflammation in Human Keratinocytes.” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22(24):13587. [Methyl-luteolin analogue; keratinocyte inflammation model.]
  • Kaminsku, Patricia and Richard Katz. Flower Essence Repertory. The Flower Essence Society: Nevada City, 1999.
  • Keefover-Ring, K. “Variation in terpenes and genetic structure of Artemisia californica.” Oikos 119.6 (2010): 981–991.
  • Kirk, Donald R. Wild Edible Plants of Western North America. Naturegraph: Happy Camp, 1975.
  • Kuhajek Jeanne M., et al. “Vulgarone B, the Antifungal Constituent in the Steam-Distilled Fraction of Artemisia douglasiana.” Journal of Chemical Ecology 29 (2003): 1771-1780.
  • Lavabre, Marcel. Aromatherapy Workbook. Healing Arts Press: Rochester, 1990.
  • Llesuy S.F. and M.G. Repetto. “Antioxidant Properties of Natural Compounds Used in Popular Medicine for Gastric Ulcers.” Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 35 (2002): 523-534.
  • Luis, Javier, and Lucia San Andres. “C-16 Hydroxylated Abietane Diterpenes from Salvia mellifera.” Phytochemistry 33 (1993), 635-8.
  • Luis, Javier G. and Lucia S. Andres. “New Ursane Type Triterpenes from Salvia mellifera Greene.” Journal of Natural Products 13 (1999): 187-194.
  • Merriam, C. Hart. Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes. University of California Archaeological Research Facility: Berkeley, 1966.
  • Moerman, Daniel E. Native American Ethnobotany. Timber Press: Portland, 1998.
  • Moore, Michael. Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West. Museum of New Mexico Press: Santa Fe, 1979.
  • Nchu, F., Magano, S. R., Eloff, J. N. “In vitro anti-tick properties of essential oils extracted from Tagetes minuta L. (Asteraceae) on Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) decoloratus Koch.” Veterinary Parasitology 190.3–4 (2012): 566–572.
  • Palafox-Carlos, H., Gil-Chávez, J., Sotelo-Mundo, R. “Antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of monoterpenes: A review.” Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 58.12 (2018): 1–14.
  • Penissi, A.B. and R.S. Piezzi. “Role of Mucus on Gastroduodenal Cytoprotection Induced by Dehydroleucodine, Isolated from Artemisia douglasiana Besser.” Acta Horticulturae 501 (1999): 235-238.
  • Powers, Stephen. “Aboriginal Botany.” Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 5 (1874): 373-9.
  • Romero, John Bruno. The Botanical Lore of the California Indians. Vantage Press: New York, 1954.
  • Rose, Jeanne. 375 Essential Oils and Hydrosols. Frog Ltd.: Berkeley, 1999.
  • Sangwan, N. S., Farooqi, A. H., Shabih, F., Sangwan, R. S. “Regulation of essential oil production in plants.” Plant Growth Regulation 34.1 (2001): 3–21. [Notes ocimene biosynthesis in Lamiaceae.]
  • Saunders, Charles F. The Western Flower: Wild Flowers of the Rockies and West to the Pacific. The Country Life Press: Garden City, 1925.
  • Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford. “Karok Ethnobotany.” Anthropological Records 13 (1952): 377-392.
  • Salehi, B., Upadhyay, S., Orhan, I. E., et al. “Therapeutic potential of α-pinene and β-pinene: A miracle gift of nature.” Biomolecules 9.11 (2019): 738.
  • Setzer W.N., et al. “Antimicrobial Activity of Artemisia douglasiana Leaf Essential Oil.” Fitoterapia 75 (2004): 192-200.
  • Smith, Clifton F. A Flora of the Santa Barbara Region, California. Santa Barbara Botanical Garden and Capra Press: Santa Barbara, 1998.
  • Timbrook, Jan. “Virtuous Herbs: Plants in Chumash Medicine.” Journal of Ethnobotany Winter (1987), 171-180.
  • Train, Percy, et al. Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada. U.S. Department of Agriculture: Washington, 1941.
  • U.S. Forest Service. “Artemisia californica.” Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/shrub/artcal/all.html
  • Valant-Vetschera, K. M., and E. Wollenweber. “Chemodiversity of exudate flavonoids in Asteraceae–subtribe Solidagininae.” Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 62 (2007): 785–797. [Notes quercetagetin/gossypetin methyl ethers in Hazardia resin.]
  • Veith, Ilza. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1972.
  • Weiss, R.F. Herbal Medicine. Ab Arcanum: Gothenburg, Sweden, 1988.
  • Wendel, G.H., et al. “Effect of Dehydroleucodine in Experimental Colitis in Rats and Mice.” Pharmacological Research 40 (1999): 339-44.
  • Westrich, Lolo. California Herbal Remedies. Gulf Publishing Company: Houston, 1989.
  • Wollenweber, E., Dörr, M., Rustaiyan, A., Roitman, J., Graven, E. (1992). “Exudate Flavonoids of Some Salvia and a Trichostema Species.” Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 47(9–10): 782–784. [Primary identification of T. lanatum exudate methylated flavones.]
  • World Health Organization (WHO) & International Fragrance Association (IFRA). “Safety assessment of fragrance ingredients: Ocimene.” IFRA Standards Documentation, 2020.
  • Worwood, Valerie Anne. The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy. New World Library: Novato, 1991.
  • Zigmond, Maurice L. Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, 1981.
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