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Indian bread-root
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See prairie turnip 1892 quote.
See: prairie turnip
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1852
This plant appears to be a species of the Psoralea esculenta, or Indian bread-root, which it resembles in description, excepting that the root of the above is tuberous, oval, and connected by long filaments.
1912
Indian bread-root. The prairie turnip, or pomme blanche (Psoralea esculenta).