| Wild
Plant/ Domesticated Plant |
Scientific
Name |
Use |
|
| Alabama
Supplejack |
Berchemia
scandens (Hill) K. Koch |
Fastener |
Stems
used to fasten dugout canoes to the shore and for general
fastening purposes. |
| Allegheny
Blackberry |
Rubus
allegheniensis Porter |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
|
|
Drink |
Fruit
used to make juice. |
| Allegheny
Serviceberry |
Amelanchier
laevis Wieg. |
Food |
Fresh
fruit used for food. |
| American
Basswood |
Tilia
americana L. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Cordage |
Boiled
bark twisted into rope. |
|
|
Carving |
Wood
used to carve. |
|
|
Food |
Young
leaves - raw or cooked, sap can also be concentrated into a
syrup and used as a sweetener, Flowers - raw can be added to
salads |
|
|
Drink |
Sap
- obtained from next to the bark and used as a refreshing
drink, flowers are used as a tea substitute, they are sweet
and fragrant |
| American
Beech |
Fagus
grandifolia Ehrh. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Cooking |
Wood
used to make food or chopping bowls and mortars. |
|
|
Misc. |
Used
to make snowshoe frames, wood used to make buttons. |
| American
Chestnut |
Castanea
dentata (Marsh.) Borkh. |
Food |
Nuts
ground into a meal and used to make bread, nuts boiled,
pounded with corn, kneaded, wrapped in a green corn blade,
boiled and eaten. |
|
|
Drink |
Used
as a coffee substitute. |
|
|
Dye |
Bark
used to make a brown dye. |
| American
Hogpeanut |
Amphicarpaea
bracteata (L.) Fern. |
Food |
Underground
fruit used to make bean bread, underground fruit cooked like
pinto beans or added to cornmeal and hot water. |
| American
Lotus |
Nelumbo
lutea Willd. |
Food |
Hard,
nut-like seeds cracked, freed from the shells and used with
meat to make soup, flour mixed with corn flour to make bread,
peeled tubers cooked with meat or hominy and used for food,
seeds gathered and roasted like chestnuts, roots gathered, cut
and strung for winter use. |
| American
Plum |
Prunus
americana Marsh. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
|
|
Drink |
Fruit
used to make juice. |
| American
Sycamore |
Platanus
occidentalis L. |
Misc. |
Wood
used to make buttons. |
| American
Witchhazel |
Hamamelis
virginiana L. |
Drink |
Leaves
and twigs used to make tea. |
|
|
Weapons |
Wood
used to make bows and arrow shafts |
| Annual
Ragweed |
Ambrosia
artemisiifolia L. |
Ceremony |
Used
as an ingredient in green corn medicine. |
| Aquatic
Milkweed |
Asclepias
perennis Walt. |
Weapons |
Plant
fibers used to make bowstrings. |
| Aztec
Tobacco |
Nicotiana
rustica L. |
Ceremony |
Used
extensively in rituals, plant smoked in the pre-ballgame
rituals. |
|
|
Smoking |
Leaves
used for smoking. |
| Baldcypress |
Taxodium
distichum (L.) L.C. Rich. |
Cordage |
Bark
used to make cordage. |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used for building |
|
|
Boats |
Trunks
used to make dugout canoes |
|
|
Music |
Drums
were made out of cypress knees |
| Balsam
Poplar |
Populus
balsamifera ssp. balsamifera |
Boats |
The
largest canoes were of poplar |
| Bamboovine |
Smilax
pseudochina L. |
Food |
Roots
used for food. |
| Beans
(Note: Most dry beans grown in
North America are of the same species) |
Phaseolus
vulgaris L. |
Food |
(Cherokee)
Beans used to make bean bread, beans used to make hickory nut
soup, beans used for food. |
| Black
Cherry |
Prunus
serotina Ehrh. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
| Blackgum
or Black Tupelo |
Nyssa
sylvatica Marsh. |
Food |
Fruit
eaten |
| Black
Huckleberry |
Gaylussacia
baccata (Wangenh.) K. Koch |
Food |
Berries
used for food. |
| Black
Locust |
Robinia
pseudoacacia L. |
Drink |
Bark
steeped into tea. |
|
|
Weapons |
Wood
used to make bows and blowgun darts. |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used to make frames for houses |
|
|
Food |
Seed
boiled and used like peas [?] (Note:
Seeds have some toxicity) |
| Black
Raspberry |
Rubus
occidentalis L. |
Food |
Fresh
fruit used for food, fruit used to make jelly, fruit dried for
winter use. |
| Black
Walnut |
Juglans
nigra L. |
Food |
Nuts
dried in the rafters for future use, nuts mixed with skinned
hominy corn, water and pinto beans, nuts used for food. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
|
|
Dye |
Used
for a dye widely used in basketry |
|
|
Cosmetic |
Used
to make hair oil |
| Bottle
Gourd (Note: Many gourds
are of the same species) |
Lagenaria
siceraria (Molina) Standl. |
Cooking |
Used
for water dippers, cups and bowls. |
|
|
Music |
Used
for drums and rattles. |
| Box
Elder |
Acer
negundo L. |
Drink |
The
sap contains a reasonable quantity of sugar and can be used as
a refreshing drink or be concentrated into a syrup |
|
|
Food |
Inner
bark - raw or cooked. It can be dried, ground into a powder
and then used as a thickener in soups etc or be added to
cereal flours when making bread, cakes etc |
| Bristly
Locust |
Robinia
hispida L. |
Weapons |
Wood
used to make bows and blowgun darts. |
| Broomsedge
Bluestem |
Andropogon
virginicus L. |
Ceremony |
Used
as an ingredient in green corn medicine. |
| Butterfly
Milkweed |
Asclepias
tuberosa L. |
Clothing |
Stems
used to make belts. |
| Button
Eryngo |
Eryngium
yuccifolium var. synchaetum Gray ex Coult. & Rose |
Misc. |
Used
to make mats |
| Cabbage
Palmetto |
Sabal
palmetto (Walt.) Lodd. ex J.A. & J.H. Schultes |
Food |
Plant
used for food. |
|
|
Bulding |
Plant
used to make houses. |
|
|
Cooking |
Plant
used to make food paddles., plant used to make skin drying
frames and potato drying mats. |
|
|
Weapons |
Plant
used to make arrows, hunting dance staffs, fish drags and fish
poison. |
| Canadian
Serviceberry |
Amelanchier
canadensis (L.) Medik. |
Food |
Berries
eaten. |
| Canadian
Wildginger |
Asarum
canadense L. |
Smoking
|
Dried
leaves pounded and used for snuff. |
| Cat
Greenbrier |
Smilax
glauca Walt. |
Food |
Roots
used for food. |
| Chinqupin
or Chinkapin Oak |
Quercus
muehlenbergii Engelm. |
Food |
Acorns
eaten |
| Common
Elder |
Sambucus
nigra ssp. canadensis (L.) R. Bolli |
Weapons
|
Stalks
formerly used for blowguns. |
| Common
Milkweed |
Asclepias
syriaca L. |
Weapons |
Plant
fibers used to make bowstrings. |
| Common
Persimmon |
Diospyros
virginiana L. |
Food |
Fruit
died into cakes for later use, fruit used for food, fruit used
to make pudding and thick porridge. |
|
|
Misc. |
Root
worked into a comb |
| Common
Serviceberry |
Amelanchier
arborea (Michx. f.) Fern. |
Food |
Berries
used for food. |
| Coontie |
Zamia
pumila L. |
Food |
Plant
used for food. |
| Corn
(Note: All corn is of the
same species and descended from a grass called teosinte. |
Zea
Mays |
Food |
Ears
roasted, ears dried for winter use, stalks sucked for the
sugar they contained, baked into little round loaves called pones,
made into boiled bread, smoke dried corm meal, made into
bread, porridge, cold meal gruel, ground, dried in fire and
smoke, hominy. (Caddo) Made corn bread
called ponak which they ate with a corn broth. (Cherokee)
Corn used as food, made a boiled bread mixed with beans, baked
corn cakes. (Chickasaw) Boiled corn with chestnuts, made
meal with corn before it came to maturity called cold meal or boota
copassa, boiled corn with venison or other meat. (Choctaw) Seeds parched and mixed with
water or boiled with or without meat, made into hominy called tanlubo
or tanlublona, corn dough was called banaha, sometimes
mixed sunflower seed with corn when making bread.
(Creek) Used lye to make hominy called sofki, ground
corn and boiled it 3 to 4 hours to make a thick porridge
called ustatahamen, hominy made into grits called
sagamite. (Yuchi) Made grits called tsoci,
made corn flour called tsukha, made meal cakes called kunlo. |
|
|
Drink |
(Chickasaw)
Corn drink preferred over plain water. |
|
|
Tanning |
Young
corn ground into pulp to take the place of deer brains in
tanning, cobs burned for tanning |
| Crookneck
Squash |
Cucurbita
moschata (Duchesne ex Lam.) Duchesne ex Poir. |
Food |
Plant
used extensively for food |
| Cultivated
Tobacco |
Nicotiana
tabacum L. |
Smoking |
Leaves
used for smoking. |
| Dahoon |
Ilex
cassine L. |
Soap |
Plant
used as soap. |
|
|
Drink |
Leaves
used for tea. |
| Dwarf
Palmetto |
Sabal
minor (Jacq.) Pers. |
Food |
Fresh
root slices baked and eaten as bread. |
| Eastern
White Pine |
Pinus
strobus L. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Boats |
Wood
used to make thirty to forty foot long canoes, frames for skin
covered boats, and rafts. |
|
|
Carving |
Wood
used to carve. |
|
|
Food |
The
seed is mainly used as a flavouring in cooking, an acceptable
candy is made by boiling the tender new shoots in syrup, the
sticky amber sap can be used for chewing, inner bark is often
dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickener in
soups etc or added to cereals when making bread. |
|
|
Dye |
A
tan or green dye is obtained from the needles |
| Field
Pumpkin |
Cucurbita
pepo L. |
Food |
Cut
into long circling slices which are barbequed or dried with
slow heat (Cherokee)
Species used for food, flesh used for food. |
|
|
Ceremony |
Rinds
used to make masks |
|
|
Music |
Used
to make rattles |
| Flameleaf
Sumac |
Rhus
copallinum L. |
Dye |
Berries
used to make both red and black dyes |
| Fourleaf
Milkweed |
Asclepias
quadrifolia Jacq. |
Weapons |
Plant
fibers used to make bowstrings. |
| Fox
Grape |
Vitis
labrusca L. |
Food |
Raw
fruit used for food. |
| Frost
Grape |
Vitis
vulpina L. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
| Giant
Cane |
Arundinaria
gigantea (Walt.) Muhl. |
Weapons |
Young
shoots used to make arrow shafts, stalks hollowed and used as
blowguns, used to make prears and arrows (Cherokee and Catawba) Used as knives as last resort
in committing suicide in 1738 smallpox epidemic. |
|
|
Basketry |
Used
to make burden baskets, used to make baskets. |
|
|
Building |
Used
to make cane webbing, plastered with mud, supported with wood
and used as a dwelling, used to make stockades |
|
|
Light |
Used
to make candles and torches |
|
|
Music |
"Joint
of reed" used to make flutes. |
|
|
Fishing |
Used
to make fishing crails and traps, used to make rafts |
|
|
Misc. |
Used
to make litters |
| Goldenclub
or Tuckahoe |
Orontium
aquaticum |
Food |
Roots
eaten |
| Goldenseal |
Hydrastis
canadensis L. |
Dye |
Source
of yellow dye |
| Graybark
Grape |
Vitis
cinerea var. baileyana (Munson) Comeaux |
Food |
Fruit
used to make juice and dumplings, raw fruit used for food. |
|
|
Drink |
Fruit
mixed with sour grape, pokeberry juice, sugar and cornmeal
used as a juice. |
| Green
Arrow Arum |
Peltandra
virginica (L.) Schott |
Food |
Plant
used for food, berries eaten |
| Green
Ash |
Fraxinus
pennsylvanica Marsh. |
Building |
Wood
used for firewood and lumber. |
|
|
Misc. |
Wood
used to make handles, ball bats and butter paddles, leaves
sometimes used as a towel. |
| Great
Ragweed |
Ambrosia
trifida L. |
Ceremony |
Used
as an ingredient in green corn medicine. |
| Groundnut |
Apios
americana Medik. |
Food |
Uncooked
seeds substituted for pinto beans in bean bread, beans used
for food, beans boiled, roots cooked like potatoes. |
| Honeylocust |
Gleditsia
triacanthos |
Food |
Powdered
pods used to sweeten parched corn |
|
|
Drink |
Powdered
pods used to make a sweet drink |
| Hordeflyweed |
Baptisia
tinctoria (L.) R. Br. ex Ait. f. |
Dye |
Used
to make a blue dye. |
| Indianhemp |
Apocynum
cannabinum L. |
Clothing |
Fibers
used to weave grave cloth material. |
|
|
Cordage |
Used
to make cords. |
| Jerusalem
Artichoke |
Helianthus
tuberosus L. |
Food |
Species
used for food. |
| Kinnikinnick |
Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
| Lima
or Sieva Bean |
Phaseolus
lunatus L. |
Food |
Beans
used for food, beans used to make bean bread, beans used to
make hickory nut soup. |
| Live
Oak |
Quercus
virginiana P. Mill. |
Paint |
Bark,
red oak and post oak boiled and used for paint. |
|
|
Dye |
Roots
and bark boiled to make a red basket dye. |
| Loblolly
Pine |
Pinus
taeda L. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Boats |
Wood
used to make thirty to forty foot long canoes, frames for skin
covered boats, and rafts. |
|
|
Carving |
Wood
used to carve. |
|
|
Dye |
A
tan or green dye is obtained from the needles |
| Luaurel
Greenbrier |
Smilax
laurifolia L. |
Food |
Pounded
roots made into cakes and fried in grease, tuberous roots
dried, ground into flour and used to make bread. |
| Meadow
Garlic |
Allium
canadense L. |
Food |
Boiled
bulbs fried with grease and greens. |
| Mockenut
Hickory |
Carya
alba (L.) Nutt. ex Ell. |
Food |
Species
used for food, ounded nut meat boiled, made into a paste and
eaten as a broth or soup. |
|
|
Basketry |
Inner
bark used to finish baskets. |
|
|
Cooking |
Wood
used to make corn beaters. |
|
|
Weapons |
Wood
used to make blowgun darts and arrow shafts. |
|
|
Fishing |
Used
for making crails |
|
|
Tools |
Wood
used to make tool handles. |
| Muscadine |
Vitis
rotundifolia Michx. |
Food |
Fruit
mixed with sour grape, pokeberry juice, sugar and cornmeal
used as a juice. |
| Nodding
Onion |
Allium
cernuum Roth |
Food |
Bulbs
used for food. |
| Northern
Red Oak |
Quercus
rubra L. |
Basketry |
Used
to make baskets. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
|
|
Cooking |
Wood
used to make corn beaters and mortars.Leaves used to wrap
dough for bread making. |
| Nuttall
Oak |
Quercus
texana Buckl. |
Dye |
Burned
bark and black gum ash added to water and used as a red dye. |
| Ogeechee
Lime |
Nyssa
ogeche |
Food |
Fruit
- cooked. |
|
|
Drink |
A
refreshing lemonade-like drink |
| Osageorange |
Maclura
pomifera (Raf.) Schneid. |
Weapons |
Wood
used to make bows |
| Pawpaw |
Asimina
triloba (L.) Dunal |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
|
|
Cordage |
Inner
bark used to make strong ropes and string. |
| Pecan |
Carya
illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch |
Food |
Nuts
used for food, nuts stored for winter use. |
| Pin
Cherry |
Prunus
pensylvanica L. f. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food, fruit used to make jam. |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
| Pitch
Pine |
Pinus
rigida P. Mill. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber, houses covered with bark |
|
|
Boats |
Wood
used to make thirty to forty foot long canoes, frames for skin
boats, and rafts |
|
|
Carving |
Wood
used to carve. |
|
|
Tattoos |
Pitch
used for making tattoo marks |
|
|
Dye |
Tan
or green dye obtained from needles |
| Prickle
Pine or Table Mountain Pine |
Pinus
pungens Lamb. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Boats |
Wood
used to make thirty to forty foot long canoes, frame for skin
covered boats, and rafts |
|
|
Carving |
Wood
used to carve. |
|
|
Dye |
Tan
or green dye obtained from needles |
| Purpleflowering
Raspberry |
Rubus
odoratus L. |
Food |
Fresh
fruit used for food, fruit used to make jelly, fruit dried for
winter use. |
| Purple
Passionflower |
Passiflora
incarnata L. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food, fruit eaten raw, young shoots and leaves
boiled, fried and often eaten with other greens, leaves
parboiled, rinsed and cooked in hot grease with salt as a
potherb. |
|
|
Drink |
Used
to make a social drink, crushed fruit strained into a juice,
mixed with flour or cornmeal to thicken and used as a
beverage. |
| Rabbit
Tobacco |
Alnus
rubra Bong. |
Superstition |
Decoction
of plant used as a wash for persons afflicted by ghosts. |
| Red
Buckeye |
Aesculus
pavia L. |
Superstition |
Nut
carried in the pocket for good luck. |
|
|
Hunting |
Seed
used to make eye in deer decoy |
| Red
Maple |
Acer
rubrum L. |
Basketry |
Used
to make baskets. |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
| Red
Mulberry |
Morus
rubra L |
Food |
Fresh
berries used for food, berries used to make jam. |
|
|
Cordage |
Used
to make thread and rope |
| Rosy
Twistedstalk |
Streptopus
lanceolatus var. roseus (Michx.) Reveal |
Food |
Leaves
and stalks mixed with wanegedum (Angelico) and sweet salad and
cooked as greens, leaves and stalks mixed with wanegedum (Angelico)
and sweet salad and canned for future use. |
| Roundleaf
Greenbriar |
Smilax
rotundifolia L. |
Food |
Roots
used for food. |
| Sand
Hickory |
Carya
pallida (Ashe) Engl. & Graebn. |
Basketry |
Inner
bark used to finish baskets. |
|
|
Cooking |
Wood
used to make corn beaters. |
|
|
Food |
Species
used for food. |
|
|
Weapons |
Wood
used to make blowgun darts and arrow shafts. |
|
|
Tools |
Wood
used to make tool handles. |
| Sassafras |
Sassafras
albidum (Nutt.) Nees |
Food |
Pounded,
dry leaves added to soup for flavor, leaves - raw or cooked.
The young leaves can be added to salads whilst both old and
young leaves can be used as a flavoring and as a thickening
agent in soups etc, the dried root bark can be boiled with
sugar and water until it forms a thick paste, it is then used
as a condiment |
|
|
Ceremony |
Bark
used as an emetic in purification after funerals, at doctor's
school & after death of patient. |
|
|
Drink |
Red
and white roots, red roots preferred, used to make tea, roots
and barks used to make a beverage tea. |
|
|
Fertilizer |
Flowers
mixed with beans for planting. |
|
|
Cleansing |
Used
to scent soap. |
|
|
Dye |
A
deep yellow dye is obtained from the wood and the bark |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used for house frames. |
|
|
Weapons |
Wood
used to make bows |
| Saw
Greenbrier |
Smilax
bona-nox L. |
Food |
Tuberous
roots dried, ground into flour and used to make bread. |
| Saw
Palmetto |
Serenoa
repens (Bartr.) Small |
Basketry |
Stems
used in basketry. |
|
|
Cordage |
Plant
used to make rope. |
|
|
Ceremony |
Plant
used to make dance fans and rattles. |
|
|
Fishing |
Plant
used to make fish drags. |
|
|
Tools |
Plant
used to make fire fans. |
|
|
Toys |
Plant
used to make dolls. |
|
|
Misc. |
Plant
used to make brushes. |
| Shellbark
Hickory |
Carya
laciniosa (Michx. f.) G. Don |
Basketry |
Inner
bark used to finish baskets. |
|
|
Coking |
Wood
used to make corn beaters. |
|
|
Weapons |
Wood
used to make blowgun darts and arrow shafts. |
|
|
Tools |
Wood
used to make tool handles. |
| Shortleaf
Pine |
Pinus
echinata P. Mill. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber, houses covered with bark |
|
|
Boats |
Wood
used to make thirty to forty foot long canoes, frames for skin
boats, and rafts |
|
|
Carving |
Wood
used to carve. |
|
|
Fishing |
Used
for torches for fire fishing |
| Silver
Maple |
Acer
saccharinum L. |
Basketry |
Used
to make baskets. |
|
|
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
| Slim
Amaranth |
Amaranthus
hybridus L. |
Ceremony |
Used
as an ingredient in a green corn medicine. |
| Slippery
Elm |
Ulmus
rubra Muhl. |
Cordage |
Bark
used to make cordage |
|
|
Cloth |
Bark
woven into textiles |
|
|
Food |
Leaves
- raw or cooked. |
| Smooth
Carrionflower |
Smilax
herbacea L. |
Food |
Roots
used for food, Inner bark - raw or cooked, leaves can be
dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickener in
soups or added to cereal flours when making bread etc |
|
|
Drink |
A
tea-like beverage can be brewed from the inner bark |
| Smooth
Solomon's Seal |
Polygonatum
biflorum (Walt.) Ell. |
Food |
Stems
& leaves mixed with bean salad & wanegedum, blanched
and boiled for three hours in a can. |
| Smooth
Sumac |
Rhus
glabra L. |
Food |
Berries
used for food. |
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Dye |
Berries
used to make both red and black dye |
| Southern
Bayberry |
Morella
caroliniensis (P. Mill.) Small |
Lighting |
Berries
boiled and wax used to make candles. |
| Southern
Crabapple |
Malus
angustifolia (Ait.) Michx. |
Food |
Fruit
used to make clear jelly. |
| Southern
Red Oak |
Quercus
falcata |
Food |
Acorns
made into bread |
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Basketry |
Used
to make baskets. |
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Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
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Cooking |
Wood
used to make corn beaters and mortars, leaves used to wrap
dough for bread making. |
| Spanish
Moss |
Tillandsia
usneoides (L.) L. |
Cordage
|
Dried
fibers twisted and used for cordage. |
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Cooking
|
Used
to remove scum in cooking. |
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Misc. |
Dried
fibers twisted and used to make floor mats. |
| Spiny
Amaranth |
Amaranthus
spinosus L. |
Ceremony |
Used
as an ingredient in a green corn medicine. |
| Sour
Cherry |
Prunus
cerasus L. |
Food |
Fruit
used for food. |
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Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
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|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
| Spanish
Moss |
Tillandsia
usneoides (L.) L. |
Cordage |
Dried
fibers twisted and used for cordage. |
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Textiles |
Used
for clothing particularly among women and girls |
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Weapons |
Tinder
for fire arrows |
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Misc. |
Dried
fibers twisted and used to make floor mats, the pillow used
for flattening the heads of infant was stuffed with it |
| Staghorn
Sumac |
Rhus
typhina L. |
Dye |
Berries
used to make both red and black dyes |
| Sugar
Maple |
Acer
saccharum Marsh. |
Food |
Sap
used to make sugar. |
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|
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
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|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
| Summer
Grape |
Vitis
aestivalis Michx. |
Food |
Fruit
used to make juice and dumplings, raw fruit used for food. |
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Drink |
Fruit
mixed with sour grape, pokeberry juice, sugar and cornmeal
used as a juice. |
| Sweetcrabapple
or Garland Crab |
Malus
coronaria (L.) P. Mill. |
Food |
Fruit used
for food. |
| Sweetgum |
Liquidambar
styraciflua L. |
Food |
Hardened
gum used for chewing gum. |
| Switchcane |
Arundinaria
gigantea ssp. tecta (Walt.) McClure |
Weapons |
Stalks
hollowed and used as blowguns, young shoots used to make arrow
shafts. |
| Trailing
Fuzzybean |
Strophostyles
helvula (L.) Ell. |
Food |
Boiled,
mashed roots used for food. |
| Virginia
Pine or Scrub Pine |
Pinus
virginiana P. Mill. |
Ceremony |
Branches
burned and ashes thrown on hearth fire after a death in the
home. |
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Food |
Seed
- raw or cooked |
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Drink |
A
tea is made from the leaves |
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Dye |
A
tan or green dye is obtained from the needles |
| Virginia
Strawberry |
Fragaria
virginiana Duchesne |
Food |
Fresh
berries used for food, berries used to make jam. |
| Water
Oak |
Quercus
nigra L. |
Food |
Pounded
acorns boiled and made into a meal, pounded acorns used as
cornmeal. |
| Water
Tupelo |
Nyssa
aquatica L. |
Dye |
Burned
bark and red oak ash added to water and used as a red dye. |
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|
Food |
Fruit
- occasionally eaten raw |
| Western
Pearly Everlasting |
Anaphalis
margaritacea (L.) Benth. |
Smoking |
Dried
leaves used as a substitute for chewing tobacco. |
| Wild
Leek |
Allium
tricoccum Ait. |
Food |
Bulbs
and leaves cooked like poke, with or without eggs. |
| White
Oak |
Quercus
alba L. |
Food |
Acorns
soaked in lye water to remove bitter tannin taste, dried for
storage and used to make soup. |
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Basketry |
Used
to make baskets. |
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Furniture |
Wood
used to make furniture. |
|
|
Cooking |
Wood
used to make corn beaters and mortars., leaves used to wrap
dough for bread making. |
|
|
Building |
Withes
formed the backing of wattle walls. |
| Yellow
Buckeye |
Aesculus
flava Ait. |
Building |
Wood
used for lumber. |
|
|
Furniture |
Wood
used to make baby cradles. |
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|
Ceremony |
Wood
used to make masks. |
|
|
Containers |
Wood
used to make dough trays. |
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|
Fishing |
Seeds
used to poison fish |
| Yellow
Thistle |
Cirsium
horridulum Michx. |
Food |
Tender,
white hearts eaten raw. |