Brassicaceae Caulanthus coulteri S. Wats.
Coulter's Wild Cabbage
Kawaiisu - Food, Vegetable
Use documented by:
Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 17
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Caulanthus coulteri S. Wats.
Scientific name: Caulanthus coulteri S. Wats.
USDA symbol: CACO38 (
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Common names: Coulter's Wild Cabbage
Family: Brassicaceae
Family (APG): Brassicaceae
Native American Tribe: Kawaiisu
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Leaves gathered in early spring before the flowers appear, boiled, salted, fried in grease & eaten.
RECRD: 4175 id: 8551