Fabaceae Trifolium wormskioldii Lehm.

Cows Clover

Hesquiat - Food, Unspecified

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 68

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Scientific name: Trifolium wormskioldii Lehm.
USDA symbol: TRWO (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Cows Clover
Family: Fabaceae
Family (APG): Fabaceae
Native American Tribe: Hesquiat
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Steamed or boiled rhizomes eaten with oil or stink salmon eggs. Stink salmon eggs made by placing salmon roe in a cod-fish stomach, plugging it with a cedarwood cork, and allowing the eggs to ferment.

RECRD: 672 id: 40664

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