Search for Deschampsia found 2 matches:

Deschampsia caespitosa (L.) Beauv.
Tufted Hairgrass; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds used for food.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 367)


Deschampsia danthonioides (Trin.) Munro
Annual Hairgrass; Poaceae
Kawaiisu Food (Porridge)
Seeds pounded, cooked into a mush and eaten.
Zigmond, Maurice L. 1981 Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press (p. 26)