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Deborah Small has recently written about thistle chia, aka thistle sage, or Salvia carduacea, with its unworldly flowers. She took this photograph on the Cahuilla Reservation.
She says:
The highly nutritious seeds have been eaten by indigenous people in the region for hundreds of years. According to Cahuilla elder Katherine Siva Saubell in Temalpakh, the high protein thistle sage seeds were gathered “in great quantities, parched, ground into flour, and mixed with other plant seeds for mush.”
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