Apiaceae Heracleum maximum Bartr.
Common Cowparsnip
Kwakiutl, Southern - Food, Unspecified
Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 276
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Heracleum maximum Bartr.
Scientific name: Heracleum maximum Bartr.
USDA symbol: HEMA80 (
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Common names: Common Cowparsnip
Family: Apiaceae
Family (APG): Apiaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl, Southern
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Young stems and petioles peeled and eaten raw like celery.
RECRD: 46914 id: 16849