Plant Bingo – BIOL F190: Intro to Alaska Flora

So this was a little challenging, given the snow is just starting to melt up here, finally giving the flora a chance to grow. Fortunately, I was sent to Point Hope and Kotzebue for work and was able to find a wider variety of budding and blooming plants. However, I still wasn’t able to fill the entire sheet. I did substitute a plant or two to fill it a little more.

PLANT-BINGO

Author: Katie

I'm from Barrow, AK, but currently live in Anchorage. Last May I graduated with my bachelors in biology and have since been trying to get more into traditional medicine used by Inupiat people (my people). I really want to become a practicing traditional doctor for the North Slope, because we don't have that available. I really believe that it would benefit the communities to have tribal medicine as a possibility for health care. Even at the very least, the exposure to that sort of knowledge would allow them to start to get back into the medicines available right outside their doors. I've been slowly working on learning the different ways local plants can be used and what they are capable of. So far I've had a little practice making salve with stinkweed, learned which greens to gather during the summer, and I've gathered some knowledge on some of the medicinal plants.

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