Traditional Plant Uses of Santa Clara Valley - Soap Plant

For thousands of years our first peoples such as the local Ohlones and Miwoks made soaproot brushes from the bulbs of soap plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum), and they still do today. 

The brushes are used to clean baskets, sweep acorn meal from mortar and have many other uses. The bulbs can grinded to stun fish, and used as a washing detergant that additionally rids dandruff. Young leaves can be eaten and used to wrap soap plant before being roasted on hot rocks in earth ovens.

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