| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Kinietz, V. 1938 | Use - Food |
tubers eaten. |
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| Kinietz, V. 1938 | Use - Food |
The tubers are cooked. |
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| Kinietz, V. 1938 | Horticultural Info |
These wild potatoes are gathered in hoeing time [June]. |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 |
"meeshimi'narkee peeta'rweeloa paanarkee misa'u aupo'oshee" which means "bring the apples, potatoes, bread ad wood".. |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Use - Food |
The Miami-Illinois term ahpena means potatoes, and indicated a number of species growing in the western prairies. |
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| Gravier, J. ca. 1700 | Use - Food | ||
| Blair, E 1911 | Use - Food |
tubers boiled in water by a slow fire; and then eaten.
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Perrot's description may refer to Psoralea esculenta; Helianthus tuberosa or another species producing sizeable tubers; this ref. also published by Dunn ca. 1900 – Michael Gonella |
| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | Use - Food |
Refers to adding leaves of soft maple to a batch of boiling wild potatoes to turn them black. |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
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| Kinietz, V. 1938 | Habitat | Found in abundance in wet prairies |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | "ahpeniiki, potato" |
Also from Gatschet ca. 1895, p.1809 – Michael Gonella | |
| Aatotankiki myaamiaki 1998-2006 | Topeka means "a place to find small or wild potatoes" in the Kaw language, and in the swamp or dry lake near the Shawnee hills exist (location of the Indianola ferry of the past) many wild potatoes grow and are eaten by wild hogs. |
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| Clark, J.E 1993 | The Shawnee collected this plant. |