Mentzelia albicaulis.

Botanical name: 

Mentzelia albicaulis Dougl. Loasaceae. Prairie Lily.

Western North America. The oily seeds are pounded and used by the Indians in California as an ingredient of their pinole mantica, a kind of cake.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.