Portulacaceae Portulaca oleracea L.

Little Hogweed

Navajo, Ramah - Food, Vegetable

Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 26

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Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea L.
USDA symbol: POOL (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Little Hogweed
Family: Portulacaceae
Family (APG): Portulacaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Leaves boiled as greens with meat.

RECRD: 10489 id: 29790

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