Category: Liliaceae

Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description by the California Native Plant Society. Calochortus nudus is a species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the common name naked mariposa lily. It is native to the mountains of northern California and southern Oregon, where it grows in…

Calochortus subalpinus

Jun 28, 2017

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Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description from the Flora of North America. Stems usually not branching, straight or flexuous, often scapelike, 0.5–3 dm. Leaves: basal 1–3 dm × 2–15 mm, usually equaling or exceeding stem length; blade flat, adaxial surface glabrous. Inflorescences subumbellate, 1–5-flowered; bracts 2–several, lanceolate…

Calochortus persistens

Jun 27, 2017

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Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description. Siskiyou mariposa lily is an herbaceous perennial with a single, basal leaf arising from a bulb. The basal leaf can be up to 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) in length and the flowering stem approximately 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) high. One to three…

Calochortus howellii

Jun 26, 2017

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Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description from the Oregon Department of Agricuture. Howell’s mariposa lily is a bulbous perennial, 2-4 dm tall, that bears a single large basal leaf (averaging 30 cm in length). These deep green, somewhat leathery basal leaves are distinctly parallel-veined with rows of…

Fritillaria recurva

May 29, 2017

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in Fritillaria, Liliaceae, Non classé

Ethnobotany. As mentioned in “Shasta Ethnography, Anthropological Records” (Holt, Catharine, 1946), the bulbs of Fritillaria recurva were boiled or roasted for food by the Shasta People. Description by the California Native Plants Society. Fritillaria recurva, the Scarlet Fritillary, is native to southwest Oregon from Douglas County south into California where it grows in the Klamath Mountains, Northern…

Fritillaria pudica

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in Fritillaria, Liliaceae, Non classé

Ethnobotany. The bulbs of Fritillaria pudica were boiled or roasted for food by the Ute, Spokan, Thompson, Blackfoot, Flathead, Montana, Gosiute, Okanagan-Colville, Paiute and Shuswap Peoples. As mentioned in “The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus” (Teit, James A., 1928); “Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa” (Hellson, John C., 1974); “Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena”…

Xerophyllum tenax

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in Liliaceae, Xerophyllum

Ethnobotany. This plant was used by many First Peoples: Blackfoot, Chehalis, Cowlitz, Hesquiat, Hoh, Hupa, Karok, Klallam, Maidu, Makah, Montana, Nitinaht, Okanagan-Colville, Pomo, Quileute, Quinault, Yama, Yurok. Poultices of chewed roots were applied to wounds, breaks and sprains. The plants used to decorate baskets and garments. The leaves were woven into water tight baskets used for cooking. The…

Calochortus gunnisonii

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Ethnobotany. A food and a medicine for many Amerindian Peoples. Calochortus gunnisonii was a food for the following First Peoples: Keres, Cheyenne, Navajo Ramah. Among the Navajo Ramah, the juice of the leaves was applied to pimples; a decoction of the whole plant was taken to ease delivery of placenta; and the plant was also used a…

Calochortus nuttallii

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in Calochortus, Liliaceae, Non classé

Ethnobotany. A food and a medicine for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Calochortus nuttallii was a food for the following First Peoples: Hopi, Gosiute, Navajo, Havasupai, Ute et Païute. These informations were mentioned in “Willards Z. Park’s Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada 1933-1940”; “Indian Uses of Native…

Calochortus leichtlinii

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