Apiaceae Heracleum maximum Bartr.

Common Cowparsnip

Kitasoo - Food, Vegetable

Use documented by:
Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 326

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Scientific name: Heracleum maximum Bartr.
USDA symbol: HEMA80 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Common Cowparsnip
Family: Apiaceae
Family (APG): Apiaceae
Native American Tribe: Kitasoo
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Young stems and petioles eaten as a spring vegetable.

RECRD: 61534 id: 16843