California Gardening: Devil's claw, 1 by pwagon

pwagon wrote:
This is a photo of one of the many Devil's claw plants growing on our property. It is a California native and came to us on it's own. The pods are black when ripe and the fibers were used by native Americans in their basket weaving. If you see very finely woven baskets with black designs that's Devil's claw. They also used the seeds for oil and ate the roots. The plant was very important to our local tribes.