| Paeonia californica Nutt. California Peony USDA PACA2 |
Diegueno Drug, Gastrointestinal Aid Infusion of sliced, oven baked roots taken for indigestion. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 28 |
| Paeonia californica Nutt. California Peony USDA PACA2 |
Diegueno Food, Vegetable Buds cooked as vegetables. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 28 |
| Paeonia californica Nutt. California Peony USDA PACA2 |
Diegueno Food, Vegetable Leaves cooked as greens. Young leaves were picked before the blossoms appeared in the spring. They were prepared by boiling, placing the boiled leaves in a cloth sack and weighting the sack down in the river with a stone, allowing the water to flow through the greens overnight to remove the bitterness in them. Alternatively, the boiled leaves could be soaked in a pan and the water changed until the bitterness was removed. The leaves were then cooked as greens, with onions and eaten as a vegetable with acorn mush. The greens could also be prepared by boiling them twice, rather than letting them wash in the river. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 28 |