uses: 38474
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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38474 | 3744 | 177 | 17 | 133 | 3 | 115 | Blooms used as an indicator of corn ripening. The goldenrod served the Omaha as a mark or sign in their floral calendar. When they were on the summer buffalo hunt, the sight of the goldenrod indicated to them that their corn was beginning to ripen at home. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 133 |