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turkey pea


Entry Type:  
Species
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
turkey pea
Myaamia Name:  

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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Rafert, S. 1989 Use - Food 

The tubers were eaten: "and the way they found out they were good to eat--originally, what the story goes--is that the wild turkey nebbed them up on the leaves in the early spring. And that little tiny potato, in finding what they were eating, they tasted em and found out that they were edible. It took a lot of em to sustain you, but they were edible, and good to eat raw. They taste much like eating a raw sweet potato. . . You find them in the woodlands. The first of all the flowering plants that grows in the woods is the turkey pea or the salt and pepper".

Botanical Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Rafert, S. 1989 Habitat 

". . . you find them in the the woodlands. The first of all the flowering plants that grows in the woods is the turkey pea . . . "

Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 Habitat 

Occurs in old fields, open woods, and barrens throughout in eastern and western Myaamia lands.

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