This update will be brief. The eastern yampah seed I collected last summer of 2017, having been sown outside to cold-moist stratify all winter, has germinated abundantly and healthfully.
Eastern yampah (Perideridia americana) germination, spring 2018
Yampah generally takes three or four years to mature to flowering age, so by 2020 or 2021 at the latest I hope for the first wave of flowers. More later…
Dicotelydons typical of Apiaceae family members. Perideridia americana.
To indigenous groups around the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, Yampah was one of the most useful and cherished root foods. In 1843, an early explorer of the American West, John Frémont, described the root as “a common article of food,” and said that the Native Americans took “pleasure in offering the root to strangers.”
