Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical GuideProvides information on identification and uses of edible prairie plants. |
Contents
Allium canadense Wild Onion | 12 |
Amaranthus graecizans Prostrate Pigweed | 18 |
Amelanchier alnifolia Serviceberry | 27 |
Amorpha canescens Leadplant | 33 |
Androstephium caeruleum Blue Funnel Lily | 43 |
Asclepias syriaca Common Milkweed | 54 |
Astragalus crassicarpus Groundplum Milkvetch | 60 |
Callirhoe involucrata Purple Poppy Mallow | 68 |
Erythronium mesochoreum White Dogs Tooth Violet | 112 |
Glycyrrhiza lepidota American Licorice | 119 |
Helianthus tuberosus Jerusalem Artichoke | 129 |
Liatris punctata Gayfeather | 142 |
Oxalis violacea Violet Wood Sorrel | 158 |
Prunus virginiana Chokecherry | 176 |
Rhus glabra Smooth Sumac | 190 |
Rubus flagellaris Dewberry | 205 |
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Common terms and phrases
86 COMMON NAMES American Arikara Asch and Asch bean beebalm Blackfoot boiled buffalo berries bulbs Cheyenne chokecherries clusters cooked coprolites corn crop cultivated currant Dakota name DESCRIPTION Perennial herbs dried edible egg-shaped Ethnobotany Family flavor fleshy Food Plants food source Fruits dry garden gathered grass green groundnuts growing habitats hairy harvested Hidatsa hog peanut ibid INDIAN NAMES Kansas Kiowa Kuhn 86 COMMON Lakota lamb's quarters Leaves alternate marsh elder maygrass Melvin Gilmore milkweed Missouri River native Nebraska North Nutt Omaha and Ponca Osage Pawnee petals pigweed Plains Ponca poppy mallow Prairie Bioregion prairie clover prairie plants prairie turnip prehistoric prickly pear Psoralea esculenta purple region reported ripe rocky roots rose rose hips SCIENTIFIC NAME seeds serviceberry soil Southwest species name spring stalks stems sumac sunflower sweet tall taste Thwaites tion toothed tribes tubers Vestal and Schultes violet weed wild food wild onions wild plums yellow НАВІТАТ