Calochortus

Calochortus nudus

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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 [...]

Calochortus subalpinus

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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, [...]

Calochortus persistens

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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 [...]

Calochortus howellii

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Calochortus nuttallii

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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 [...]

Calochortus leichtlinii

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Ethnobotany. A food and a medicine for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description by the California Native Plant Society. Calochortus leichtlinii is a species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the [...]

Calochortus macrocarpus

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Ethnobotany. A food and a medicine for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted.  By the Thompson People as mentioned in “The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia” (Steedman, E.V., 1928), in [...]

Calochortus elegans var. nanus

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Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples of California: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. By the Mendocino People as mentioned in “Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California”, (Contributions from the U.S. [...]

Calochortus tolmiei

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Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. By the Mendocino People as mentioned in “Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California”, (Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium [...]