Fun Facts
Soapweed - Yucca glauca:
Shampoo can be made from it's roots.
Chamomile - Matricaria recutita:
Creates soothing tea.
Spearmint - Mentha spp:
soothing tea
Dandelions - Taraxacum officinale:
immune booster, all parts edible
Alfalfa - Medicago sativa:
tea to improve appetite
Cattail - Typha latifolia:
eat immature flower heads, shoots, and roots, too
Sandbar willow - Salix spp:
bark as a headache and fever remedy
Arrowleaf balsamroot - Balsamorhiza sagittate:
root boiled like potatoes, seeds ground for flour
Yarrow - Achillea millefolium:
leaves as a cold remedy
Russet buffaloberry - Amelanchier canadensis:
causes diarrhea
Chokecherry - Prunus virginiana
berries for jelly/syrup, leaves poisonous, bark tea cures diarrhea
Wild onions - Allium spp
use like garden onions
Blooming Sally - Epilobium angustifolium
peel stem to thicken soup
Calendula - Calendula officinalis
salve from flowers to sooth the skin
Poplar - Populus balsamifera
bark tea to sooth pain and fevers
Bearberry - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
tea for urinary infections
Woodruff - Asperula odorata
used for abdominal pain and headaches
Larkspur - Delphinium spp
to kill head lice
Four-wing saltbush - Atriplex canescens
baking powder substitute
Goldenrod - Solidago spp
chew to relieve toothaches
Plantain - Plantago spp
chew roots to relieve toothache, leaves to heal wounds
Winterfat - Ceratoides lanata
chew leaves to reduce a fever
Quaking aspen - Populus tremuloides
fever remedy
Juniper - Juniperus spp
berry wax for candles
Rose - Rosa spp
hips for vitamin C
Dock/Sorrel - Rumex spp
leaves taste like pickles, builds immune system
Nettle - Urtica dioica
builds the immune system
Sedges - Carex spp
wetland plant with three-sided stems
Garlic - Allium spp
anti-infection, anti-viral immune booster
Pine - Pinus spp
resin and old needles for fire starter, needles for insect repellant