Capparaceae Cleome serrulata Pursh

Rocky Mountain Beeplant

Navajo - Food, Vegetable

Use documented by:
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 50

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Scientific name: Cleome serrulata Pursh
USDA symbol: CLSE (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Rocky Mountain Beeplant
Family: Capparaceae
Family (APG): Cleomaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Young plants boiled and rolled into balls and eaten.

RECRD: 2876 id: 10324

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