On This Day | Gathering From the Prairie

This plant is a member of the pea family and has five leaflets on each leaf. The rounded or oblong part of the root becomes an inch or more in diameter. It has a leathery covering and a small, fibrous center but most of it is non-fibrous, not tough but rather tasteless. It is interesting that Meriwether Lewis commented that this root had no objectionable features, not true of other roots they ate.

1960-12-15 | Ward County Independent

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