Karuk Dictionary
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kíthriip deer brush, "soap bush", "wild lilac"
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3882 | revised Jun 30 2005
kíthriip • N • deer brush, "soap bush", "wild lilac" Ceanothus integerrimus (Schenck and Gifford, no. 144, 154).
Derivative (1)
kithripsansáanhitihan "plant sp., perhaps vetch"
Source: WB 894, p.361; JPH pla 06:454
Note: Also identifed as myrtle, Myrtus communis (Schenck and Gifford, no. 154); JPH mat 07:497 calls 'buckbrush, myrtle'. {No Myrtus listed in Munz, Calif. Flora.}
Photo (© 2008 Br. Alfred Brousseau, Saint Mary's College)
