Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT
Native Plant Species
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Species Description:
The bluedick is an herbaceous perennial. Major identifying features of blue dicks include a dense cluster of purple-blue or occasional white flowers with six fertile stamens, a twisted and fleshy stem, two basal leaves and angular black seeds
Habitat Description:
The bluedick occur from sea level up to 2,100 meters. It inhabits a wide variety of plant communities including vernal pools, coastal strand, mixed evergreen forest, chaparral, valley grassland, desert scrub, coniferous forests, oak woodlands, and on the fringe of coastal salt marsh and redwood forest.
Native American Use:
- These corms formed an important starch source in the diet.
- Natives dug and continue to dig the corms before flowering, during flowering.
- Traditional gathering sites were visited annually, over long periods of time and there are references to gathering tracts of different kinds of corms and bulbs specifically owned and maintained by particular families.
Harvest Season: Spring, Summer and Fall 
Coast Miwok Name: waila (Tomales) putcu (Bodega)
Southern Pomo: hi?bu?la
B L U E D I C K - Scientific Name: Dichelostemma capitatum
Iris
Gumplant
Huckleberry
Ithurieal’s Spear
Seaweed
Jimson Weed
Lupine
Mugwort
Redbud
Redwood
Rush
Salmon Berry
Seaweed
Sedge
Showy Indian Clover
Silverweed
Soaproot
Strawberry
Sunflower
Tobacco
Toyon
Valley oak
Wax Myrtle
Willow
Yarrow
Yerba Buena
