Chenopodiaceae Salicornia maritima Wolff & Jefferies

Slender Glasswort

Gosiute - Food, Bread & Cake

Use documented by:
Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 380

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Scientific name: Salicornia maritima Wolff & Jefferies
USDA symbol: SAMA11 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Slender Glasswort
Family: Chenopodiaceae
Family (APG): Amaranthaceae
Native American Tribe: Gosiute
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Bread & Cake
Notes: Seeds ground into a meal and used to make a 'sweet bread.'

RECRD: 4668 id: 35612