Buttonroot, wild hyacinth, Triteleia hyacinthina (syn., Brodiaea hyacinthina). They grow deep in the ground. ƛ̓áksin pawá sɨknisɨ́kni ku sɨ́t̓xʷs ‘yellow bells and wild hyacinth are two sisters’; at̓úk iwá x̣nít sɨ́t̓xʷsna ‘it is difficult to dig the buttonroot’. [NE ɨst̓ɨ́xʷs; NP cát̓ox̣c /ct̓x̣ʷc/ ‘Brodiaea douglasii‘.]
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