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Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Cahuilla Food, Vegetable
Leaves eaten fresh or boiled as greens.
Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 89
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Diegueno Food, Vegetable
Young leaves, picked in the spring before the flowers appear, boiled once and eaten as greens.
Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 17
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Luiseno Food, Vegetable
Plant used for greens or eaten raw.
Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 232
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Mahuna Drug, Dietary Aid
Plant juice used as an appetite restorer.
Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 62
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Miwok Food, Unspecified
Raw stems, leaves and blossoms used for food.
Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 160
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Montana Indian Food, Sauce & Relish
Eaten raw as a relish.
Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 16
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Miner's Lettuce
USDA CLPEP
Paiute, Northern Food, Vegetable
Leaves eaten raw.
Fowler, Catherine S., 1989, Willards Z. Park's Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada 1933-1940, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 49