Apiaceae Heracleum maximum Bartr.
Common Cowparsnip
Okanagan-Colville - Food, Vegetable
Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 62
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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: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Flower stalks and leaf stems peeled and eaten fresh.
RECRD: 12322 id: 16885