Listing of Plants and Others by Category: Grasses, Forbs, Lichen and Mushrooms, Woody Plants and Shrubs (Includes Traditional Use Information)
Traditional Uses:
| F = edible flowers | L = edible leaves |
| R = edible roots | S = edible stems |
| B = edible berries | P = Poisonous |
Grasses, Rushes, and Sedges
- Alpine Fescue
- Alpine Foxtail
- Beach Rye Grass
- Cotton Grass / Pikniq, Pikniik, Pitniq, or Pitniik or Aqłakataq S
- Goose Grass
- Pendant Grass / Pikniq
- Polar Grass
- Sedge
- Spike Trisetum
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Tundra Grass
- Water Sedge
- Wood Rush
Forbs
- Alaska Blue Anemone
- Alpine Forget-Me-Not
- Alpine Milk Vetch
- Alpine Wormwood
- Arctic Daisy
- Arctic Forget-Me-Not
- Arctic Groundsel
- Arctic Lupine
- Arctic Poppy
- Arctic Stitchwort
- Beach Greens / Atchaaqłuk L
- Beach Pea
- Bog Saxifrage
- Boreal Sagebrush
- Chamomile, Seashore or Arctic
- Chickweed
- Cloudberry / Aqpik
- Coltsfoot / Mapkutitaaġruaq or Milukutakpak L
- Cordate-leaved Saxifrage L
- Crowberry / Paunġak, Paunġaq, Pauġat, or Pauġak B
- Cuckoo Flower
- Dandelion
- Dwarf Fireweed / Tilaaggik L
- Dwarf Hawksbeard
- Eskimo Potato / Masu R
- Fleabane
- Glacier Avens
- Golden Whitlow Grass
- Grained Saxifrage
- Hairy Arctic Milk Vetch
- Heather / Piļġaurat, Pilġaurat, Piļaurat, Piļaġaqutaq, or Ikkuqutit L
- Horsetail
- Jacob’s Ladder
- Lagotis or Weaselsnout
- Large-flowered Wintergreen
- Lingonberry or Lowbush Cranberry / Kimmiŋñaq or Kimmigñauraq B
- Locoweed / Aiġaq
- Mare’s Tail
- Marsh Fleabane
- Marsh Marigold L, R
- Moss Campion
- Mountain Avens
- Mountain or Arctic Sorrel or Wild Rhubarb / Quŋuliq, Quŋulliq, Quŋulik or Quŋullik L
- Narrow-leaved Saussurea
- Nodding bladder-campion
- Nodding Saxifrage
- Northern Anemone
- Northern Primrose / Piļġaurat
- Northern Rock Jasmine
- Northern Water Carpet
- Oysterleaf
- Paintbrush
- Pallas Buttercup
- Parry’s Wallflower / Masu Aiġaq
- Pasque Flower
- Pineappleweed, or Disc Mayweed
- Pink Plumes / Ippiq or Ippigich L, R
- Purple Mountain Saxifrage
- Purple Oxytrope or Blackish Oxytrope / Aiġaq
- Richardson’s Saxifrage
- Rock Jasmine
- Roseroot
- Ross’ Sandwort
- Rusty Saxifrage
- Salmonberry / Akpik or Aqpik B
- Scurvygrass L
- Siberian Aster
- Snow Buttercup P
- Sourdock / Quagaq, Quaġaq, Quagak, Quaġak, or Quagat L, R
- Starwort
- Stinkweed / Sargiġruaq, Sargiq or Saliġigruaq L
- Sudetic Lousewort
- Tansy or Lake Huron Tansy
- Thrift Seapink
- Tufted Saxifrage
- Tundra Rose L
- Valerian
- Weak Saxifrage or Pygmy Saxifrage
- Whitlow Grass
- Wild Celery or Seacoast Angelica
- Wild Sweet Pea
- Woolly Lousewort / Itqiļiaġruk or Itqiļiaġruaq or Qutliiraq F, R
- Yarrow
- Yellow Lousewort
Lichen and Mushrooms (Argaiġñaq) and More
- Cup Fungi
- Finger Lichen / Kivviġiruaq
- Puffball
- Reindeer Lichen / Niqaaq
- Sphagnum Moss / Uġru
Woody Plants and Shrubs
- Alder / Nunaŋiak or Nunaniat
- Alpine Blueberry / Asiaq orAsiat or Asiavik B, L
- Bearberry / Aŋurvak or Aŋurvat B
- Bog Rosemary
- Cottonwood or Balsam Poplar / Ninŋuq
- Dwarf Birch / Urgiiļiq
- Kinnickkinnick / Tinnik B
- Labrador Tea / Tilaaqqiq, Tilaaqqit or Tilaakiq L
- Lapland Rosebay
- Willow / Uqpik or Uqpiich L, S
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