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Pediomelum esculentum
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Pediomelum esculentum, synonym Psoralea esculenta, common name prairie turnip or timpsila, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to prairies and dry woodlands of central North America, which bears a starchy tuberous root edible as a root vegetable. English names for the plant include tipsin, teepsenee, breadroot, breadroot scurf pea, large Indian breadroot, prairie potato and pomme blanche. The prairie turnip continues to be a staple food of the Plains Indians.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pediomelum esculentum
- Slug
- pediomelum-esculentum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Pediomelum
- Species
- esculentum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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