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|text=''Leguminosae''. GROUNDNUT. WILD BEAN. Northeast America. The tubers are used as food. Kalm <ref>Kalm, P. ''Trav. No. Amer.'' 1: 400. 1772.</ref> says this is the kopniss of the Indians on the Delaware, who ate the roots; that the Swedes ate them for want of bread, and that in 1749 some of the English ate them instead of potatoes. Winslow <ref>Young, A. ''Chron. Pilgr.'' 329. 1841.</ref> says that the Pilgrims, during their first winter, "were enforced to live on ground nuts." At Port Royal, in 1613, Biencourt <ref>Parkman, F. ''Pion. France'' 301. 1894.</ref> and his followers used to scatter about the woods and shores digging ground nuts. In France, the plant is grown in the flower garden <ref>Vilmorin ''Fl. Pl. Ter.'' 105. 1870. 3rd Ed.</ref>. | |||
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|author =[[Apios (Sturtevant, 1919)|Sturtevant, ''Notes on edible plants'', 1919]]. | |||
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*[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apios%20americana Wikipédia] | *[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apios%20americana Wikipédia] | ||
*[http://www.wikiphyto.org/wiki/Apios%20americana Wikiphyto] | *[http://www.wikiphyto.org/wiki/Apios%20americana Wikiphyto] | ||
*[ World Flora Online] | |||
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Uses summary
Description
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Uses
Leguminosae. GROUNDNUT. WILD BEAN. Northeast America. The tubers are used as food. Kalm [1] says this is the kopniss of the Indians on the Delaware, who ate the roots; that the Swedes ate them for want of bread, and that in 1749 some of the English ate them instead of potatoes. Winslow [2] says that the Pilgrims, during their first winter, "were enforced to live on ground nuts." At Port Royal, in 1613, Biencourt [3] and his followers used to scatter about the woods and shores digging ground nuts. In France, the plant is grown in the flower garden [4].