name: Prairie Turnip

flavor_db_name_variants: prairie turnip

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Prairie turnip

id: 439

name_scientific: Pediomelum esculentum

description: Psoralea esculenta (prairie turnip) 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. The plant is also known as Pediomelum esculenta. English names for the plant include tipsin, teepsenee, breadroot, breadroot scurf pea, and pomme blanche. The prairie turnip was a staple food of the Plains Indians. A closely related species, Psoralea hypogaea, the little breadroot, is also edible, although the plant and root are smaller. Another species, Psoralea argophylla, was probably harvested for food only in times of famine.

itis_id: 504177

wikipedia_id: Psoralea esculenta

picture_file_name: 448.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 41639

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:40:40.000Z

legacy_id: 475

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Root vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:42.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:25.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 458363

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00439