ISSUE 84, SOUTHERN LANDRACE & HEIRLOOM CORN, Issue 17: Sea Island White Flint
Sea Island White Flint
A Native landrace originally grown by the Siouan and Muskogee peoples from Florida to North Carolina, Sea Island White Flint is a twelve row white cobbed corn that sets one ear per stalk. The hardness of the cap inhibited corn weevils which are endemic to the southern coastal plain. Ears of Sea Island White Flint set hard capped wh…