What crop did the Pawnee Indians grow?

The Pawnee tribes (Skidi, Tsawi, Kitkehaxki and Pitahawirata) grew many crops in their fields: corn was planted first, then eight types of beans, seven varieties of squash and pumpkins, and mellons (citrullus citrullus).

The Pawnees grew a wide range of different types of corn (maize) and were always very careful to keep the seeds separate: blue corn, spotted corn, white corn, small white corn, yellow corn, hard corn with different colours on the same cob, red corn, sweet corn, Osage corn.