Native American Plant Use
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Local Trees and Shrubs
of
Washington State
Native American Usage
Western White Pine
(The Tree Its Self)
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Leaves- grow in clusters of five
needles, 2 to 4 inches long, bluegreen, 2 to 6 white bands of
stomata on the under surface
Bark- is smooth green-gray on
young stems, later breaking up into
dark gray rectangular plates
Its height is 120 to 160 feet
Where to find it- in the cascades
and Olympic mountains, it also
grows in northeastern Washington
and in some scattered locations in
western Washington
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Western White Pine
(Its uses)
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To relieve aches and pains,young
shoots boiled and a bath was taken
in the water.
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Vetch
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This American Vetch
belongs to a group of
annual and perennial plants
that were used for forage,
food, and fodder.
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The Vetch is a
leguminous plant with small
flowers that is often used
for silage or fodder, Genus;
Vincia.
Native American Uses
• The Native
Americans soaked
the roots and used
it as a hair wash.
Camas
• Most important of
Idaho’s indigenous food
plants and a contributing
factor of 1878.
• Native people
congregated at the camas
meadows in spring tell
late summer to trade,
socialize, and gather
sweet nutritious bulbs on
the Camas plant.
Native American Uses
• Techniques of gathering
and burning of camas
meadows were a form of
early plant husbandry.
• Camas was best prepared
by slow cooking for several
days in a earths oven.
• It was often dried for later
use or trade.
The Sword Fern
Sword Ferns are used for…
Mattresses
Lining baking pits
The leaves look like small swords.
Sword Fern roots can be baked
and eaten.
Native American’s Use For
Sword Fern
SPORES
Native Americans
would use the spore on
the back of a Sword
Fern’s leaf to ease cuts
and burns. Kind of
like ointment.
The Blue Elder Berry
The Blue Elder Berries are 15 cm
long.
The Elder Berry color varies from
blue , red, white,yellow,black and
purple.
It grows in the wild, not captivity
It grows in shrubs
They grow white cream colored
flowers in spring
Native Uses
Blue Elder Berries can
be used for sweet
jelly.
The Berries are also
used for pies.
There’re also useful
for elegant wine.
It’s most useful use is
it’s natural dye.
Broad Leaved Cattail
• The Broad leaved Cattail
is brown and shaped like a
cigar,and made of tightly
stiff stalks.
• The male Broad leaved
Cattail is short, stubby,and
has a fluffy tail which will
disappear in later summer.
• There habitat is marshes
and sallow edges of
ponds.
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Native American Uses
• The natives used this plant
to make food.Similar to
Asparagus eaten like corn
on the cob, and could be
boiled like potatoes.They
even make it into flour.
• If they needed insulations
for walls they could use
the Cattail.
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Bark: The color is
Reddish/Brown. This bark is
broken into large loose
scales and is corn-flaky and
crackles when pressed or
walked on.
Fruit: A pendent cone, 2 ½
to 4 inches long.
There are needles on this
tree that are sharp and
prickly.
Native American Uses
The word Sitka Spruce is
called Piecea Sitchensis in
Native American language.
The sprig of the tree is used
as a charm for whaling.
The roots are used for
basketry, rain hats, and a
rope for whaling.
The pitch is used for canoe
caulking.
The Pacific Yew
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• The Pacific Yew is found in
the mountains of
Northeastern Washington,
also from the coast to the
Cascade Divide, Blue
Mountains, and sometimes
along streams of Eastern
Washington.
• The time of the growth is very
slow.
• One of the important
characteristics are the single
needles, which give the twig a
flattened look.
Native uses Of The Pacific Yew
• Used to make bows,
arrows, and whale
harpoons.
• Used for canoe paddles,
and war clubs.
• Made into wedges for
splitting logs, household
utensils, combs, drum
frames, digging sticks for
roots and clams.
• The Douglas fir is very
big.
• It has long flat needles.
• There are two kinds of
Douglas fir.
• The coastal and the
mountain.
By Sarina
• The Douglas fir is
used to make salmon
spears.
• It’s bark is boiled to
heal infections.
• Also the bark is boiled
to use as die so the
fish can’t see the net.
Vine Maple
• Leaves turn a bright
red in the fall
• They grow in clumps
• There twigs go like
vines
By Cortney
Native Uses
• Vine maple was used
for weaving baskets
• The vine maple was
also used to make
snowshoes
• It was also used to
make salmon tongs
Big Leaf Maple
• Bark was made into rope.
• Used leaves to lay fish on
while cleaning them.
• Used to build framework
for sweat lodges.
Big Leaf Maple
• The little buds
that fall off are a
type of seed.