t'ogwak'e
(Quinault)
Skunk Cabbage
Lysichiton americanus
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Description:
Description:
Skunk cabbage has a bright yellow spathe that encloses the club like stock and has thick dark spinach like green leaves. It’s named for distinctive musk a smell similar to that of a skunks. ('Pojar & Mackinnon' 334)
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Traditional Uses:
Traditional Uses:
Native people traditional uses for skunk cabbage are namely being used mainly for medicine treating burns, sores and swelling but sometimes being used as food flavoring or worn by the Scia’new tribe as shoes.
Warning: Do not eat without consulting a Indigenous elder.(E 'McMullen')
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Growing Information:
Growing Information:
You can find Skunk cabbage in marshy swamps and forests with shade and dappled sunlight.
Skunk cabbage grows in clusters with roots 3 to 4 inches deep in the ground. Skunk cabbage is also edible when prepared correctly. ( 'Pojar & Mackinnon' 334)
Works Cited
Deur, Douglas. Gifted Earth : the Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes. Corvallis, Oregon State UP, 2022.
This book gave me the Indigenes Quinault name.
MacKinnon, A., et al. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast : Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska. Richmond, Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.
This book gave me growing and other information.
McMullen, Jen. Pacific Northwest Plant Knowledge Cards. 5th ed., Strong Nations, 2018.
This book gave me information on
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