Luschiim's plants : traditional Indigenous foods, materials and medicines / Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charlie, Luschiim Arvid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnobotany.

Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--Pacific Coast.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

An invaluable compendium of Hul′q′umi′num′ traditional knowledge.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Note Regarding Plant Use, Safety and Conservation

Note on Linguistic Writing System for Hul'q'umi'num' Plant Names and Other Terms

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Luschiim's Plants

Seaweeds (Algae)

Sea wrack, bladderwrack or rockweed

Bull kelp

Membranous seaweeds

sea lettuce

Lichens

Various species of tree lichens, especially lung lichen

old man's beard lichens

silvery tree lichens

Fungi (Including Mushrooms)

Tree fungi, bracket fungi or shelf fungi

Mushrooms

Orange jelly fungus, or witch's butter

Mosses and Liverworts (Bryophytes)

Mosses

Ferns and Fern Allies (Pteridophytes)

Scouring rush, or branchless horsetail

Giant horsetail and common horsetail

Goldenback fern

Licorice fern

Sword fern

Bracken fern

Coniferous Trees

Grand fir

amabilis fir, or silver fir

and subalpine fir

Yellow-cedar

Seaside juniper

Sitka spruce

Lodgepole pine, or shore pine

White pine

Douglas-fir

Pacific yew, or western yew

Western red-cedar

Western hemlock and mountain hemlock

Broad-leaved Trees

Vine maple

Douglas maple, or Rocky Mountain maple

Broadleaf maple, or bigleaf maple

Red alder and Sitka alder

Arbutus, or Pacific madrone

Pacific flowering dogwood

Cascara

Pacific crabapple

Black cottonwood

Trembling aspen

Domesticated plum

Bitter cherry

Garry oak

Willow

Shrubs and Vines

Saskatoonberry, or serviceberry

Hairy manzanita

Red-osier dogwood

Hazelnut

Black hawthorn

Salal

Oceanspray, or ironwood

Common juniper

Orange honeysuckle

Black twinberry, or twinflower honeysuckle

Tall Oregon-grape

Low Oregon-grape, or dull-leaved Oregon-grape

Indian plum, or bird cherry

Devil's-club

False box, or boxwood.

Mock-orange

Pacific ninebark

Labrador-tea

Stink currant

Coastal black gooseberry

Gummy gooseberry, or sticky gooseberry

Red-flowering currant

Dwarf wild rose, or baldhip rose

Nootka wild rose

Red raspberry

Blackcap, or black raspberry

Thimbleberry, or redcap

Salmonberry

Trailing wild blackberry

Himalayan blackberry

and evergreen or cutleaf blackberry

Blue elderberry

Red elderberry

Soapberry, or soopollalie

Hardhack, or spiraea

Waxberry, or snowberry

Huckleberries and blueberries

Canada blueberry, or velvet-leaved blueberry and bog blueberry

Alaska blueberry and oval-leaved blueberry

Black Mountain huckleberry

Evergreen huckleberry

Bog cranberry

Red huckleberry

Highbush cranberry

Herbaceous Flowering Plants

Yarrow

Wild nodding onion

tapertip onion or Hooker's onion

and garden onion

Spreading dogbane, or hemp dogbane

Red columbine

Wild ginger

Deltoid balsamroot

Calypso, or false ladyslipper

Common camas and great camas

Tall basket sedge

Pipsissewa, or prince's pine

Short-styled thistle and other thistle species

Pacific hemlock-parsley

Fireweed

Yellow avalanche lily, or yellow glacier lily

Seaside strawberry

Woodland strawberry

and blueleaf strawberry

Chocolate lily, or riceroot and northern riceroot

Sweet-scented bedstraw

Large-leaved avens

Rattlesnake plantain

Oregon gumweed

Grasses and grass-like plants

Cow-parsnip

Beach pea and purple pea

Tigerlily

Barestem desert-parsley, or Indian consumption plant

Skunk-cabbage

Field mint

Indian-pipe and coralroot

Yellow pondlily

Brittle pricklypear cactus

Coltsfoot

Broad-leaved plantain

Dock, or "coffee plant" species, including bitter dock

yellow dock

western dock

and other Rumex spp.

Wapato.

American glasswort, or sea asparagus

Tule, or roundstem bulrush

Broad-leaved stonecrop and spreading stonecrop

Seaside arrow-grass

Cattail

Stinging nettle

Indian hellebore or false hellebore

Giant vetch or beach vetch

Death camas

Sources

Appendix 1: General Hul'q'umi'num' botanical names and terms pertaining to plant use

Appendix 2: Plants for which we found minimal information

Appendix 3: Names of introduced garden plants and plant products

Index: English and Scientific Plant Names

Index: Hul'q'umi'num' Plant Names

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55017-946-2

OCLC:

1293241583