Capparaceae Cleome serrulata Pursh
Rocky Mountain Beeplant
Hopi - Food, Unspecified
Use documented by:
Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 77
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Cleome serrulata Pursh
Scientific name: Cleome serrulata Pursh
USDA symbol: CLSE (
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Common names: Rocky Mountain Beeplant
Family: Capparaceae
Family (APG): Cleomaceae
Native American Tribe: Hopi
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Young plants boiled for food.
RECRD: 41464 id: 10299