Plants

By: Sophia, Abeer, Andres, and Yaslin

Bearberry• Lewis and Clark discovered this plant in the Fort Clatsop, Columbia

River.• Lewis and Clark called this plant Kinnikinnick or Sacacommis.• Natives smoke the leaves with tobacco.• Bearberries were once a main food for the Native Americans and

White Settlers • Indians cooked them in salmon oil or added them to soups and stews.• The leaves of the Bearberry have been used in medicine.• After Lewis tasted the Bearberry he said it was “A very tasteless fruit.

It was sweeter after it was boiled Written by: Sophia

Poisonous Dogbane

Means “Deadly to Dogs” because it is dangerous to dogs and livestock.

Animals avoid eating and it can be fatal to humans.

Discovered in the town of Kamiah in Idaho.The plant was used to make fishing lines, nets

and bowstrings, or was woven into bags, moccasins, mats, bedding, straps and the like.

Written By: Yaslin

Bitter Roots

Raceme Amer: Vegetable used by Indians throughout the North West. Bitter Tears: A plant found throughout the Rocky Mountains and most

abundant in Western Montana. The name came from a story about an old Indian woman

and how she cried for her sons. Spetlem: Highly nutricious but not very tasty.

Written by: Abeer

Luxuriant Beargrass

Lewis and Clark discovered that this plant grows in abundance on these mountains and the horses will not eat it.

It’s found in the Northern Rockies, the Cascade, and the Coastal Ranges.

Beargrass is not a “grass” because grasses have hollow stems and Beargrass has sturdy green stalks with white colored flowers.

Written by: Andres