PLANTS

CRANBERRY

• Vaccinium macrocarpo.
• 5-20cm high, dark pink, berry larger than actual plant.
• Grow in windy, sunny, and dry places.

CRANBERRY

• Humans make juice, jam, jelly, sauce, pie, and dried fruit.
• Cranberries have delicious fruit and grow low to the ground.
• Bees, bears, birds, insects, and humans eat cranberries.

LINGONBERRY

• Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
• 10-40 cm high, bell-shaped, white to pale pink, 3-8 cm long, red berry (6-10 cm across).
• Grow in snowy, high wind places.

LINGONBERRY

• Bears, birds, bees, and humans eat Lingen berries.
• Humans make food, jam, beverages, jellies, deserts, pies, or raw.
• Broad leaves, snow to cover during winter, can survive -40*F weather, not great in hot summers.

BIRCH

• Betula glandulosa.
• Small to medium trees/ shrubs, simple leaves.
• Lives in arctic and cool environments.
• Humans use birch for firewood and logs for houses.

BIRCH

• Birds, insects, beavers, and bears use this plant.
• Humans use birch for firewood and logs for houses.
• One adaptation is that the roots hold water and food during winter months.

BLUEBERRY

• Vaccinium cyanococcus.
• 1-8 cm long, shrub, and has a sweet taste.
• Grows in tundra with high winds and dry areas.

BLUEBERRY

• Bears, bees, caribou, moose, insects, and birds eat this plant.
• Humans eat them and make them into jam and jelly.
• Some adaptations are that they grow low to the ground with big leaves compared to the plant.

LABRADOR TEA

• Rhododendron columbianum.
• 1-10 cm tall, evergreen leaves, with white flowers.
• Labrador tea lives in moist places.

LABRADOR TEA

• Most plant eaters eat this, and most insects pollinate this plant.
• Humans use this for medicine, tea astringent, diaphoetic, can be toxic, and used to repel insects.
• Attractive flowers attract pollinators to the plant.

YARROW

• Achillea millefolium.
• 1-3 ft tall, white flowers in clusters, leaves serrated like teeth.
• Grow in windy, dry, and sandy areas.

YARROW

• Plant eaters and insects pollinate/eat this plant.
• Humans use yarrow to stop bleeding cuts, and clotting wounds, tea.
• Long roots that hold it in place in the windy soil.

BLACKBERRY

• Rubus fruticosus.
• Black, deep green foliage, serrated leaves.
• Grows in low, windy, and moist places.

BLACKBERRY

• All plant eaters, bears, insects to pollinate, and rabbits eat blackberries.
• Humans use it for food ex. Jam, jelly, and pie.
• Grow low to the ground so that the wind doesn’t knock it down and kill it.

ALDER

• Albus infactus.
• Large shrubs, simple, serrated leaves, flowers are catkins.
• Grows in dry or moist places.

ALDER

• Birds and insects pollinate alders.
• Humans use alder for survival purposes, smoke food, treat poison oak, treat insect bites, and treats skin irritations.
• Alder has strong, wooden trunks that let it grow tall and sturdy.

SKUNK CABBAGE

• Lysichiton americanus.
• 1-5 in tall, long-stemmed, green-yellow spikes.
• Grows in swampy, wet places.

SKUNK CABBAGE

• Black bears, pollinators, flies, and beetles all use this plant.
• Humans use this plant for medicines for burns, and injuries, we also eat it.
• Skunk cabbage has a distinct odor that is nasty.

DEVIL’S CLUB

• Oplopnax horridus. Shrub, large palmate leaves, erect, woody stems 1-1.5 meters tall.
• Devil’s club lives in arboreal rainforests, moist, dense places.
• Black Bears, bees, flies, beetles, birds, and deer eat this plant.
• Black bears only eat the berry part of the white flower.

DEVIL’S CLUB

• The root can be mixed with licorice, Eleuthero, and cinnamon for a tea that helps with organ functions.
• They have thorns that protect the rest of the plant from unwanted predators.
• It is used for ceremonial/protective face paints, some believe it is a link to the spirit world, it is also hung over doors to ward off evil.
• It is also called Devil’s Walking Stick or Alaskan Ginseng. Among other names.

ALASKAN GINSENG

• You can identify Alaskan Ginseng by the thorns at all stages of life. If one of the thorns “attack” you, then try to pull it out without breaking any off under the skin, then use a leaf and make a poultice and put it onto the wound.