The specimen consists of nutlets that compare best with Salvia sp., possibly Salvia apiana Jeps., white sage, Lamiaceae.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Diego; Mesa Grande
Culture or time period:
Diegueño and Kumeyaay
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as food
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
These seeds were sampled and sent to the Department of Food and Agriculture for identification by Kat Anderson and others in her lab. She is the ethnoecologist at the National Plant Data Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service at the University of California. The seeds were returned in December of 2009.
Loans:
S2008-2009 #11: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Department of Agriculture, UC Davis (April 6, 2009–December 1, 2009)