Object name: Seeds / Culture or time period: Eastern Miwok / Loans: S1969-1970 #3: University of California, Berkeley (July 7, 1969–December 14, 1970) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object name Seeds Culture or time period Eastern Miwok Loans S1969-1970 #3: University of California, Berkeley (July 7, 1969–December 14, 1970)

Hearst Museum object titled Seeds, accession number 1-10348, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; seeds (Madia sativa), flat, brown. The main component of the specimen consists of achenes of Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindl., common madia, Asteraceae. Note: According to the treatment in Hickman, J. C., 1993, The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, University of California Press, M. elegans is highly variable and intermediates blur distinction among extremes. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 37 achenes of Ranunculus californicus Benth., California buttercup, Ranunculaceae 16 seeds of Trifolium obtusiflorum Hook. f., clammy clover, Fabaceae 13 florets of Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro, small fescue, Poaceae 4 achenes of Rigiopappus leptocladus A. Gray, wireweed, Asteraceae 6 seeds of Gilia spp., gilia, Polemoniaceae 3 achenes of Agoseris sp., agoseris, Asteraceae 2 florets of Poa secunda J. Presl, Sandberg bluegrass, Poaceae 2 seeds of Collinsia heterophylla G. Buist ex Graham, Chinese-houses, Plantaginaceae 1 seed of Phlox sp., phlox, Polemoniaceae 1 nutlet of Cryptantha spp., cryptantha, Boraginaceae 1 floret of Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C. Gmel., rat-tail fescue, Poaceae 1 seed of Trifolium ciliolatum Benth., foothill clover, Fabaceae 1 caryopsis of Melica sp., melicgrass, Poaceae 1 unknown