Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I
Map 1: Dena’ina Country
Introduction
Format
Sources
The Climate
Biotic Communities
The Seasonal Cycle
The Setting
Gathering Plants
Processing Plants
Preserving Plants
Dena’ina Beliefs Regarding Plants
Dena’ina Plant Classification
Part II
Trees and Shrubs with Needle-like Leaves
White Spruce, Black Spruce, Sitka Spruce
Western Hemlock, Mountain Hemlock
Tamarack
Common Mountain Juniper
Western Red Cedar
Broad-Leafed Trees and Shrubs without Berry-like Fruit
Paper Birch, Kenai Birch
Balsam Cottonwood, Balsam Poplar
Quaking Aspen
Mountain Alder
Thinleaf Alder
Willow
Shrub Birch, Dwarf Birch
Sweet Gale
Alaska Spiraea, Beauverd Spiraea
Plants with Berry-like Fruit
Using Wild Fruit
Alpine Blueberry, Bilberry
Bog Blueberry
Early Blueberry, Blue Huckleberry
Pacific Serviceberry, Saskatoon Serviceberry
Lingonberry, Lowbush Cranberry, Mountain Cranberry
Cranberry, Bog Cranberry
Highbush Cranberry
Bearberry, Kinnikinnick
Red-Fruit Bearberry
Alpine Bearberry
Cloudberry, Lowbush Salmonberry
Salmonberry, Highbush Salmonberry
Raspberry, American Red Raspberry
Nagoonberry
Crowberry, Blackberry
Trailing Black Currant, Skunk Currant
Northern Black Currant
Northern Red Currant, American Red Currant
Prickly Rose, Nootka Rose
Devil’s Club
Greene Mountain Ash, Sitka Mountain Ash
Pacific Red Elder, False Elder
Soapberry, Buffaloberry
Silverberry
American Dogwood, Red-Osier Dogwood
Bunchberry, Canadian Dwarf Cornel, Swedish Dwarf Cornel
Twisted Stalk, Watermelon Berry
Dogberry, Northern Commandra
Beach Pea
Grass-like Plants
Horsetail, Jointed Grass
Grass
Sedge
Cotton Grass
Goosetongue, Seashore Plantain
Iris, Wild Flag
Thick-Stemmed Plants
Cow Parsnip, Wild Celery
Angelica
Beach Lovage
Sour Dock, Wild Rhubarb, Arctic Dock
Wild Rhubarb
False Hellebore
Edible Plants and Wild Sweet Pea
Wild Chive, Wild Onion
Nettle
Fireweed
Wild Potato, Alaska Carrot
Wild Sweet Pea
Lady Fern, Spreading Wood Fern
Wild Rice, Chocolate Lily
Pink Plumes, Bistort
Medicinal Plants
Narrow-Leaf Labrador Tea, Hudson Bay Tea
Labrador Tea, Hudson Bay Tea
Tundra Rose, Shrubby Cinquefoil
Wormwood
Bedstraw
Northern Yarrow
Pineapple Weed, Wild Chamomile
Wild Geranium, Cranesbill
Roseroot
Larkspur
Sweet Coltsfoot
Single Delight, Bethlehem Star
Marsh Violet
Club Moss, Spike Moss
Other Terrestrial Plants
Lapland Rosebay
Nootka Lupine, Large-Leafed Lupine, Arctic Lupine
Woolly Lousewort, Tall Lousewort
Alaska Poppy, Pink Poppy, Iceland Poppy
Purple Mountain Saxifrage
Twinflower
Wintergreen
Poque
Strawberry Blite, Strawberry Spinach
Aquatic Plants
Marsh Fivefinger
Yellow Pond Lily
Water Hemlock
Bladderwort
Aquatic Algae, Saltwater Algae, Freshwater Algae
Mosses
Mosses, Green Terrestrial Mosses
Red Sphagnum
White Sphagnum
Lichens
Caribou Moss, Reindeer Lichen
Old Man’s Beard
Terrestrial Fungi
Mushrooms
Puffball
Arboreal Fungi and Black Birch Burl
Artist’s Fungus
Birch Polypore
Fomes applanatum
Black Birch Burl
Appendices
Appendix A: The Dena’ina Alphabet
Appendix B: Dena’ina Plant Names and Plant Products Borrowed from Russian
Appendix C: Flora in Dena’ina Place Names
Appendix D: A Classification of Landforms and Environments
Appendix E: Plants Used to Treat Common Ailments
Bibliography
Plant Index