Pacific Clarkia, also called the Satin Flower.  Seeds were reported to be used as a small foodstuff.  Please know that most native NW plants make humans sick, many can kill.  ~1 in 10, with proper preparation, are consumable; even then perhaps only a part of the plant (root, stalk, leaf, or fruit) is edible.  Pacific Clarkia, also called Farewell-To-Spring, is most likely found in dry and open meadows. A herb and a member of the Onagraceae Family, it grows by Kiosk 14.  Pilchuck Learning Center’s sponsored Western Washington State University SAM Project extinction possibility is slight; unlikely to be extinct soon and found from Vancouver BC to the southern Oregon border.

http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Clarkia+amoena
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Clarkia%20amoena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkia_amoena
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-14.pdf
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CLAM
http://www.burkemuseum.org/research-and-collections/botany-and-herbarium/collections/database/results.php?Genus=Clarkia&Species=amoena&SourcePage=search.php&IncludeSynonyms=Y&SortBy=DESC&SortOrder=Year

The part of the Clarkia that Native Americans were said to collect and eat were the:

flowers
leaves
seeds

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