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100
Multiple Choice:
(A) Acer rubrum - Red Maple (tea for sore eyes/sap for sugar/lumber material)
(B) Acer rubrum - Red Maple (tea for sore eyes/sap for sugar/lumber material)
(C) Eutrochium maculatum - spotted joe pye weed (Diaphoretic tea from leaves and flowers)
Answer: (C)
Scientific/Common Name: Eutrochium maculatum - spotted joe pye weed
Traditional Name/Usage: Diaphoretic tea from leaves and flowers
100
Multiple Choice:
(A) Artemisia ludoviciana - White Sagebrush (relieve headache/stomachache/smoking tobacco)
(B) Betula pubescens - Downy Birch (buckets, baskets, wigwam coverings, and canoes)
(C) Echinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower (poultice of roots applied to inflammation to relieve the burning sensation)
Answer: (A)
Scientific/Common Name: Artemisia ludoviciana - White Sagebrush
Traditional Name/Usage: Nokwe'Jigun - Ojibwe (relieve headache/stomachache/smoking tobacco)
100
Multiple Choice:
(A) Dalea candida - White Prairie Clover (roots/leaves for tea reduce diseases)
(B) Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Green Ash (Bow Making/pipe/poles)
(C) Helianthus tuberosus - Jerusalem artichoke (tubers are eaten raw, boiled, or roasted)
Answer: (B)
Scientific/Common Name: Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Green Ash
Traditional Name/Usage: Bow making, pipe usage, & poles for housing.
200
Multiple Choice:
(A) Juglans nigra - Black Walnut (Nuts used in soups / Create black dye)
(B) Laportea canadensis -
Canadian woodnettle (seeds and flowers used for wine)
(C) Pinus resinosa - Red Pine (Waterproof pitch)
Answer: (A)
Scientific/Common Name: Juglans nigra - Black Walnut
Traditional Name/Usage: Nuts used in soups / Create black dye.
200
Multiple Choice:
(A) Chenopodium album - Lambsquarters (paint bow and arrows green, anti-rheumatic)
(B) Asclepias syriaca - Common Milkweed (Tonic, diuretic, alternative, emmenagogue)
(C) Celastrus scandens - American bittersweet (skin problem, diuretic, anesthetic, gynecology)
Answer: (A)
Scientific/Common Name: Chenopodium album - Lambsquarters
Traditional Name/Usage: paint bow and arrows green, anti-rheumatic.
200
Multiple Choice:
(A) Acer rubrum - Red Maple (tea for sore eyes/sap for sugar/lumber material)
(B) Acorus calamus - Calamus (cold remedy, toothaches)
(C) Achillea millefolium - Common Yarrow (throat/sprider bite/bleeding medicine)
Answer: (C)
Scientific Name: Achillea millefolium - Common Yarrow
Traditional Usage: Wabigwon (Ojibwe) - spider bite medicine, herb to reduce swelling, aids in throat irritation, and to stop/reduce bleeding.
300
Multiple Choice:
(A) Dirca palustris - Eastern Leatherwood (Berries not edible/Diuretic Tea)
(B) Comarum palustre - Purple Marshlocks - (Dysentery)
(C) Betula pubescens - Downy Birch (Bark for baskets/red dye)
Answer: (C)
Scientific/Common Name: Betula pubescens - Downy Birch
Traditional Name/Usage: (Bark for baskets/red dye)
300
Multiple Choice:
(A) Agastache foeniculum - Blue Giant Hyssop (cough/chest pain)
(B) Acer saccharinum - Silver Maple (Sugar/dye/cramps/lumber)
(C) Achnatherum hymenoides - Indian Ricegrass (Crain crop)
Answer: (A)
Scientific/Common Name: Agastache foeniculum - Blue Giant Hyssop
Traditional Name/Usage: Wahpe' yata'pi -Lakota / Cough and Chest Pain medicine
300
Multiple Choice:
(A) Sporobolus cryptandrus - Sand dropseed (flour/porridge/bread)
(B) Zizania aquatica - Annual Wildrice - (Cereal)
(C) Achnatherum hymenoides - Indian Ricegrass (Grain crop)
Answer: (C)
Scientific/Common Name: Achnatherum hymenoides - Indian Ricegrass
Traditional Name/Usage: Grain crop
400
Multiple Choice:
(A) Asclepias syriaca - Common Milkweed (Tonic, diuretic, alternative, emmenagogue)
(B) Acorus calamus - Calamus (cold remedy, toothaches)
(C) Helianthus tuberosus - Jerusalem artichoke (tubers are eaten raw, boiled, or roasted)
Answer: (A)
Scientific/Common Name: Asclepias syriaca - Common Milkweed
Traditional Name/Usage: Tonic, diuretic, alternative, emmenagogue
400
Multiple Choice:
(A) Acorus calamus - Calamus
(B) Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple
(C) Acer negundo - Box Elder
Answer: (B)
Scientific Name: Acer saccharum - Sugar Maple
Traditional name/usage: A'Nina'Tig (Ojibwe) - sap mixed with box elder sap to drink as a beverage.
400
Multiple Choice:
(A) Chenopodium album - Lambsquarters (paint bow and arrows green, anti-rheumatic)
(B) Sporobolus cryptandrus - Sand dropseed (flour, porridge, and other bread)
(C) Quercus macrocarpa - Bur Oak (decoction of root or inner bark for cramps, acorns eaten roast, boiled, or raw)
Answer: (C)
Scientific/Common Name: Quercus macrocarpa - Bur Oak
Traditional Name/Usage: decoction of root or inner bark for cramps, acorns eaten roast, boiled, or raw.
500
Multiple Choice:
(A) Tradescantia occidentalis - Prairie Spiderwort (edible)
(B) Helianthus tuberosus - Jerusalem artichoke (tubers are eaten raw, boiled, or roasted)
(C) Zea mays - Corn (Edible/many uses)
Answer: (B)
Scientific/Common Name: Helianthus tuberosus
Traditional Name/Usage: tubers are eaten raw, boiled, or roasted
500
Multiple Choice:
(A) Quercus macrocarpa - Bur Oak (decoction of root or inner bark for cramps, acorns eaten roast, boiled, or raw)
(B) Laportea canadensis -
Canadian woodnettle (seeds and flowers used for wine)
(C) Salix interior - Sandbar willow (eave baskets, stems used for jar stoppers, fish roasting sticks, tie fastener)
Answer: (B)
Scientific/Common Name: Laportea canadensis -
Canadian woodnettle
Traditional Name/Usage: seeds and flowers used for wine.
500
Multiple Choice:
(A) Salix pedicellaris - Bog Willow (Bark to cure gastrointestinal issues)
(B) Prunus nigra - Canadian Plum (Food/bark as dye)
(C) Nepeta cataria - Catnip (stimulant/tonic/tea to purify blood)
Answer: (C)
Scientific/Common Name: Nepeta cataria - Catnip
Traditional Name/Usage: (stimulant/tonic/tea to purify blood)