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Indigenous Plants & Native Uses in the Northeast

HOG PEANUT HOG PEANUT
(Amphicarpase species)
HOG PEANUT

HOG PEANUT

Food: A single large seed ripens on this vine.

Medicine: Also with the common name hog peanut (Falcata comosa) a reddish bean from this vine was used by the Chippewa as a physic.


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