Scientific Name: Potentilla fruticosa

Common Name(s): Shrubby cinquefoil, Tundra rose

Scientific Name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea

Common Name(s): Lingonberry, Lowbush cranberry

Scientific Name: Picea glauca

Common Name(s): White spruce

Scientific Name: Lathyrus maritimus

Common Name(s): Beach pea

Scientific Name: Rosa asicularis

Common Name(s): Rose hips (fruiting body of wild rose, prickly rose)

Scientific Name: Ledum groenlandicum

Common Name(s): Northern labrador tea

Scientific Name: Lysichiton americanum

Common Name(s): Skunk cabbage, Skunk weed

Scientific Name: Rubus ideaus

Common Name(s): Wild raspberry

Scientific Name: Artemisia tilesii

Common Name(s): Stinkweed, Wormwood, Alaska sage

Scientific Name: Cornus canadensis

Common Name(s): Dwarf dogwood, Bunchberry

Scientific Name: Juniperus communis

Common Name(s): Common Juniper

Scientific Name: Echinopanax horridum

Common Name(s): Devil's club, Alaska ginseng

Scientific Name: Elymus arenarius

Common Name(s): Beach wild rye

Scientific Name: Ribes triste

Common Name(s): Red currant

Scientific Name: Salix spp.

Common Name(s): Willow

Tea boiled from the entire plant to treat colds, pneumonia, and abdominal gas; tea reportly used historically to treat tuberculosis.

Tea or juice used for sore throat, bladder infection, and to promote digestion; poultice used for rashes and shingles. Juice was used to relieve snowblindness when applied to the eyes.

Spruce pitch or sap placed on wounds for healing, to stop bleeding, and to prevent infection; heated pitch brough relief to burns, sore muscles, and tooth aches; tea from the bark was used for relief of symptoms with cold, flu, and sore throat; spruce needle tea was used for stomach ailments and kidney problems; juice squeezed from the new spruce tips at the tree top or end of the branches was used to relieve sore eyes.

Cooked greens historically used to "nourish intestinal tract and urinary organs. CAUTION: Plant has a powerful toxin, and may cause partial or total paralysis.

High in vitamin C; the fruit is eaten or used in tea to prevent colds and promote overall good health.

Leaves chewed or boiled into a tea for treatment of cold, flu, cough, chest congestion, constipation, and hangovers. Ash or poultice was applied to joints for relief of arthritis pain.

Leaves pulverized and mixed with oil were rubbed into hair to help strengthen it; roots were boiled and mashed into a salve with seal oil then used to heal wounds and prevent infection; the smelling of dried root was used to relieve headaches; tea was used for the treatment of colds.

Leaf tea used historically by pregnant women to prevent miscarriage, ease labor pains, and increase milk supply.The berries are a delectable and nutritious food source.

This is a highly valued medicinal herb. Crushed raw leaves are used as mosquito repellant, as a compress for sore muscles and joints, arthritis, and for athlete's foot; tea is used for a general health tonic, as well as for relief of colds, sore throats, and upset stomach.

Berry tea used for soothing stomach troubles; crushed leaves placed on eyelids to reduce eye swelling and redness; poultice of leaves placed on skin wounds or burns to facilitate healing; heated leaves placed on nipples of breastfeeding mothers to reduce inflammation.

Berries eaten raw or made into a tea for relief of arthritis, cough/congestion due to colds, flu. Also berries used historically to treat problems related to kidney and gallbladder.

Ash was applied to cuts to prevent infection; historical uses also included a tea made from scraped bark used to provide symptomatic relief from tuberculosis, colds and pain. Historically considered to be a powerful medicine, however, berries contain a toxin. Interestingly, devil's club reportly causes low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).

The ash from the grassy leaves was applied to mosquito bites to relieve the itch.

Tea from berries used as a wash for sore eyes, and to provide relief from respiratory infections and flu.

Leaves have a high source of vitamin C, and are chewed to promote healing of mouth sores; salicin, related to aspirin, is found in new bark growth and was used for general pain relief.