The book Native American Ethnobotany, by Daniel E. Moerman (Timber Press), refers to extensive food and medicinal use of leaves, tubers and corms of many species of Claytonia. Corms? I've been poking around on the internet and find many more such references. Are Claytonia winter-storage units true corms (modified stem tissue)? I note the wiki refers only to tubers. And, thank you Dennis. That's a neat site. On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote: > In writing about far northern bulbous plants I was thinking about monocots > alone, but Dennis is correct that some Alaskan Claytonia species have > underground storage structures. There is also a Hedysarum (Fabaceae, pea > family) that produces tubers collected for food by Native people. Veratrum > has structures that one could call bulbs, in the broad sense, and there are > some aquatic plants in Alaska with storage structures too. Lloydia, which I > mentioned, is the one I've seen growing farthest north, near Nome, but two > Claytonia species extend north of the Brooks Range onto the Arctic SLope; > one of them is C. tuberosa, whose root is also used as food. > > ex-Alaskan > Jane McGary > Portland, Oregon, USA > > > At 07:47 AM 2/3/2015, you wrote: > >> There are about 7 species of Claytonia that occur in the northern parts of >> Alaska, Yukon & Northwest Territories. At least a few of them are >> geophytic, maybe all of them. Check out this page: >> http://claytonia.org/2014/08/… >> >> Dennis in Cincinnati >> > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >