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Photographer: James King
Taken: June 20, 2015
Caption: Purple Poppy Mallow
(Callirhoe involucrate)
Additional Description: Medicinal Use:
Native Americans often boiled its roots and drank the liquid to ease internal pains or used it externally to bath aching body parts. The Lakotas and Dakotas inhaled the fumes from a smoldering root as a treatment for head colds.
Food Use:
The sweet starchy root is about the size of a carrot and tastes somewhat like a sweet potato
Submitted: July 19, 2015, by James King of San Miguel, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p316285
File Size: 3.735 Megabytes

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