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	Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region (1933), “Soaproot Brush,” by S. A. Barrett and ...
		4, shows one of these newly made soaproot brushes, while figures 5 and 7 of this same plate show examples of these brushes which have been so much used that they are worn down.
		Soaproot leaves bound with a twig and ready for the application of soaproot juice or pitch to make the handle.
		Soaproot brush made of fibers bound with string but not held together by any adhesive agent.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/miwok_material_culture/soaproot_brush.html (288 words)

	Soap plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Soap Plants, Soaproots or Amoles are the genus Chlorogalum of flowering plants.
		Red Hills Soaproot, Chlorogalum grandiflorum, found in the north and central Sierra Nevada foothills
		Small-flowered Soaproot Chlorogalum parviflorum, found in the south coastal region of California, south of Santa Barbara, and into Baja California
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soap_plant (463 words)

	Residues of Forestry Herbicides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Root samples (bracken fern, soaproot) consisted of the plant root or bulb.
		Golden fleece and soaproot can have compounds that are co-extracted and interfere with the analysis.
		For the above reasons, hexazinone in golden fleece and soaproot were analyzed with a gas chromatograph and nitrogen/phosphorous detector.
	www.cdpr.ca.gov /docs/empm/pubs/ehapreps/eh97-01.htm (5809 words)

	Toad in the Hole
		Our native soaproot blooms in the evening, between sunset and about 1 AM, and is therefore vesperine.
		Posted by: murky at May 23, 2005 11:01 PM I suppose "subfield" would be a fair description of the backyard the soaproot was in, yes.
		The garedner is working on making a patch of the deep-soil East Bay flatlands as they might have been before cities and farms and tons of people.The soaproot in question was taller than I am.
	www.faultline.org /place/toad/archive/002287.html (211 words)

	Naturally Clean
		Soaproot (Chenopodium califor nicum) is related to the nutritious lamb's quarter (C. album), the quinoa (C. quinoa), and epazote (C. ambrosiodes).
		Soaproot has a large taproot, with a shape similar to a carrot or a large ginseng root.
		Unfortunately, soaproot seems to be found in scattered locations.
	www.motherearthnews.com /library/1997_August_September/Naturally_Clean (1809 words)

	California Tribal Arts - Food and Gathering
		Twined of willow and redbud, sealed with soaproot glue, approx.
		Made from the fiber and pulp of the soaproot plant (approx.
		Used to transport acorn dough, and once used was discarded.
	www.pacwesttraders.com /foodgath.html (78 words)

	Soaproot
		Ayla was nervous as she raced to dig up soaproot, horsetail fern, and red-rooted pigweed, and her stomach was a bundle of knots while she waited anxiously for boiling water from one of the cooking fires to extract the insecticidal element from the fern.
		It was too early in the year to find lathering soaproot, and the countryside was too open for horsetail fern, which grew in shady damp places.
		The foam from ceanothus wasn't as rich as soaproot lather, but this was a final washing and the pale blue petals left a pleasant mild scent.
	phoenix.4u.org /aylasplants/plants/soaproot.html (656 words)

	Creek Running North
		Soaproot sends up pallid leaves, rosettes to dot the countryside.
		Soaproot grows in sun-baked south slope serpentine, or boggy shade, its leaves frozen splashes around imagined points of impact.
		Scarcity would breed greater fondness, but soaproot replenishes the earth without regard to popularity.
	faultline.org /index.php/site/comments/chlorogalum (880 words)

	Red Hills Soaproot
		Red Hills Soaproot is known from serpentine and gabbro rock sites primarily in Tuolumne and El Dorado counties.
		These sites are primarily chaparral; the soaproot growing in the openings.
		However, there are also a number of occurrences that are associated with westside ponderosa pine forest from El Dorado to Calaveras County.
	www.blm.gov /ca/pa/ssp/plants/chlorogalum_grandiflorum.html (208 words)

	Indian Rock Native Garden: Camp Pendleton: Deborah Small
		After signing all the requisite waivers, Julie and her colleague, archeologist Stan Berryman, drove us in 4-wheel drive vehicles into a region few nonmilitary people are allowed to visit.
		The marines were busy simulating air, sea and ground assault scenarios as we photographed tule, stinging nettle, lupine, and soaproot in the Pendleton back country.
		One student dreamed of a giant soaproot plant, and of tiny deer attaching themselves to his ears.
	www.csusm.edu /indianrock/fieldtrips/pendelton/camp_pendleton.html (541 words)

	Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region (1933), “Adhesives,” by S. A. Barrett and E. W. ...
		Soaproot juice and pine pitch seem to have been the only adhesives used.
		Hot soaproot juice applied to twined burden baskets made their walls impervious to the small seeds placed in them.
		This same fluid also served to bind the handles of brushes made of soaproot fibers.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/miwok_material_culture/adhesives.html (171 words)

	Pine Hill Preserve - Rare Plant: Red Hills soaproot
		Also, the leaves of the common soaproot are often longer, wider and less wavy than the Red Hills soaproot.
		The thin stems that attach the flowers to the stalk tend to be shorter on the Red Hills soaproot than on the common variety.
		The Red Hills soaproot occurs almost entirely on gabbro and serpentine soils in western El Dorado County, and the Red Hills in Tuolumne County, but it has been found at several locations in other soils as well.
	www.pinehillpreserve.org /rare_plants/species/Red_Hills_soaproot.htm (285 words)

	Seghea.com Yucca
		Adam's Needle, Adamsnadel, Amole, Bare Grass, Palmlilie, Sisal String, Soaproot, Soapweed, Socol, Spanish Bayonet.
		The stems can be baked, and the blossoms, minus the bitter centers, can be cooked and eaten.
		Another species, called Ku-ku-ul by the Takic, has a head and stalk which are edible roasted.
	www.seghea.com /pat/art/notes/yucca.html (1558 words)

	soap plant. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The lather is obtained from all parts of the plant.
		The California soap plant or soaproot (Chlorogalum pomeridianum) of the lily family is collected in the W United States for its bulb.
		Other soap plants used locally include an acacia (Acacia concinna), whose pods are used like the soapberry, and, among American plants, species of yucca and agave (see amaryllis), the red buckeye (Aesculus pavia), the California pigweed (Chenopodium californicum), the senega snakeroot (Polygala senega), and species of Zygadenus and Ceanothus.
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/soapplan.html (412 words)

	Native California Fall Gathering at Lan Luis Reservoir State Recreation Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The soaproot brush was not only used to brush the acorn meal in the stone mortar,
		but other soaproot brushes were made into hair brushes.
		Dick is holding one of the soaproot brushes.
	www.primitiveways.com /fall_gathering2001(5).html (79 words)

	Wilderness Grooming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Brushes for grooming hair were made from soaproot or yucca.
		The soaproot bulbs were also used for soap.
		The bulbs were crushed, water was added, and suds were created when rubbed between the hands.
	www.primitiveways.com /stone-file.html (207 words)

	Native Californians and Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		I particularly enjoyed the chapter about making soaproot brushes.
		The soaproot plant, Chloragalum pomeridianum, fascinates me. The fibers that cover the bulb are used to make brushes.
		If you ever have the chance to hold a soaproot brush, you will quickly discover that indeed it is an excellent tool.
	www.bayside-indexing.com /calif.htm (504 words)

	Peter Rabbit
		What with Iphicles being gone, Iolaus fills a place in both hers and Hercules heart that Iphicles left empty when he was forced to live with his grandparents when the grandparents had deemed Alchemene an unfit parent because Hercules was born out of wedlock.
		She watches as Iolaus shows Hercules how to better dunk his head in the barrel and how to find soaproot to clean his hands.
		Iolaus watches as Hercules rubs his soap soaked hair and bubbles and lather form in his chestnut wavy hair..and all over his face.
	www.members.tripod.com /skylarkfanfiction/peter_rabbit.htm (5731 words)

	Red Hills Bike Trip
		The trails are very narrow, often through thick brush, and there are plenty of steep climbs and descents on very loose rocks.
		We took the Old Sage trail (6), Soaproot Ridge trail (7), an unmarked trail off the Soaproot trail that eventually joined the Six Bit trail, back along the Old Sage to the Soaproot Ridge trail and then back via the Overlook Loop trail (4) and Verbena Loop trail (3) to the Red Hills road.
		Here is a map, I've approximated where the new trail goes.
	arnica.csustan.edu /mtbike/RedHills_3 (233 words)

	2006 Native Garden Tour — West Garden
		Visit the Native Plant Selection Consultant's Corner and ask David Amme, who will be manning the California Native Grass Association's table, which plants will do well in your garden.
		Gardening for Wildlife: For a month in summer, the front garden soaproot meadow is glorious, with clouds of orchid-like flowers covered with delighted bumblebees.
		Several species of salamanders are at home in the garden, as are numerous species of butterflies and bees.
	www.bringingbackthenatives.net /2006gardens/West.html (286 words)

	Ayla's Herbs S-Y
		"Finding a round stone she could hold easily in her hand, Iza pounded the soaproot with water in a saucerlike depression of a large flattish rock near the stream.
		The root sudsed into a rich, saponin-filled lather.
		Note: You may link to this page, but the format and work put into it are the property of the Author.
	ecfans.com /aylasherbs/AHerbs_sy.htm (342 words)

	Marin CNPS - Junior Botanist Study Kit - Trees - Buckeye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		They are also the first deciduous trees to get their new leaves in February.
		Native Americans used buckeyes to stun fish in streams (like they used soaproot)
		Native Americans only ate buckeyes in times of famine because of the elaborate procedure needed to get the poison out.
	www.marin.cc.ca.us /cnps/Buckeye.html (99 words)

	Wildflower Folklore - A collection of wildflower stories and the legends behind wild flowers.
		This lovely white to pale pink roadside flower (It looks a lot like phlox.) is common over much of the eastern states, but it’s a European native.
		Besides Bouncing Bet (after a washer-woman), it’s also called Soapwort, Scourweed, Sheepweed, and Soaproot.
		Over the centuries, everybody noticed that this plant’s leaves possess a scouring quality.
	www.wildflowerinformation.org /WildflowerFolklore.asp (2239 words)

	soapwort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Other Names: Soaproot, Bouncing Bet, Latherwort, Fuller's Herb, Bruisewort, Crow Soap, Sweet Betty
		Soapwort is a perennial European native herb which has become thoroughly naturalized in the United States.
		Caution is advised, when taken in excess, this plant is poisonous, it destroys red blood cells and causes paralysis of the vasomotor center.
	iron-clay.cloudnine.net.nz /soapwort.html (311 words)

	I was wondering what this soaproot looked like and so I looked it up. Here is a link on it, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		I was wondering what this soaproot looked like and so I looked it up.
		Subject: I was wondering what this soaproot looked like and so I looked it up.
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	www.voy.com /201247/3054.html (164 words)

	Unknown # 2 - UBC Botanical Garden Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Ours has a mild peppery/sweet fragrance, but not every year.
		Common name, soapwort, Soaproot, Bouncing Bet, Latherwort, Fuller's Herb, Bruisewort, Crow Soap, Sweet Betty.
		Definately not saponaria as it's growing to high.
	www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /forums/showthread.php?t=8639 (321 words)

	2005 Native Garden Tour — Lismay garden
		Three bird houses invite habitation, and birds now nest in the garden.
		An interesting variety of bees, flies, and other winged insects love the cow parsnip, goldenrod, California lilac, and buckwheats, while butterflies flutter around the buckwheats and milkweeds, and moths visit the soaproot flowers.
		Hollyleaf (Islais) cherry, hazelnut, and the fruits mentioned above also attract mammals.
	www.bringingbackthenatives.net /2005gardens/Lismay.html (295 words)

	QUEST: Featured Scientist \| Maine Public Broadcasting Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In fourth grade, a local naturalist took me and my classmates on forays into the hills behind our school to show us glorious California poppies and delicate shooting stars.
		She explained how Native Americans used a plant called Indian soaproot as shampoo and pointed out that the oaks and bay laurel trees liked to grow on the shady sides of the hills and not in the open grassland.
		As a teen I loved backpacking in Yosemite, Death Valley and Point Reyes National Seashore.
	www.mpbn.net /quest/linda_gregory.shtml (462 words)

	Untitled Document
		On This Thursday's hike we met at Joes, then headed down to below Hahn Student Services, walked below the foot bridge that leads to the McHenry Library, and walked down the drainage.
		We then headed up to the meadow below the ARC Center (Old Student Center) and made a salad of Miners Lettuce, Chickweed, Wild Radish Flowers, Chantrelle, Black Elfin Saddle, Baked Soaproot, and of course, an Annies Salad Dressing.
		Above: Magic ingredients: Baked Soaproot and Annies Salad Dressing!
	mnhc.ucsc.edu /naturalhistoryhikes1.html (696 words)

	TAP Online Archive: 1998 Program Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Ted Bonillas discusses the dietary, medicinal, and ritual uses of native plants, and shows samples he has collected locally, such as rattlesnake weed, aloe vera, sage and altaberry.
		Mona Garibay makes brushes from the fibrous bulb of the soaproot plant.
		Sabrina Garibay uses the thigh-spinning method to make cordage from dogbane fibers.
	www.calacademy.org /research/anthropology/tap/archive/1998/1998.html (1657 words)

	Cal Alive! Newsletter » Cal Alive! Explores Social Studies
		How do you introduce your students to these nations?
		How do you explain the acorn harvesting, Soaproot fishing, and canoe-building practices of native Californians?
		In response to Cal Alive!—Exploring Biodiversity Professional Edition, CIB has received a great deal of interest from teachers who saw the CD-ROM sections about California Indians and recognized them as valuable tools for teaching about California’s environmental history.
	www.calalive.org /news/newsletters?p=24 (314 words)

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