Pale Wolfberry (Lycium pallium) is a sand desert shrub. The Navajo know this plant as ‘Haash Che dah’ which translates as ‘plant of the Holy People’. The orange berries from this plant are mixed with clay and made into a pudding which is eaten during the Vigil of the God’s part of the Night Way Chant ceremony.
The plants are often found in colonies which suggests that they were transplanted by ancient peoples.
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