Author: Shellie Tabb

I live in Ketchikan, Alaska with my husband and our five kids. I work as the Library Assistant at UAS Ketchikan. I am interested in all things Alaska, including native plants and Alaska Native culture. I am most interested in using what I learn in our ethnobotany classes to help preserve Native knowledge and I also want to help develop curriculum to teach kids about our native plants. I am working towards my certificate in ethnobotany here at UAF and contemplating my next leap into grad school in the near future.

Dissections

Plant Dissection

By Shellie Tabb July 23, 2020 July 24, 2020 3

Dwarf Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1343087857526374403 Salal, Gaultheria shallon https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1343096010422878211 American Twinflower, Linnaea borealis https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1343103589282742275 Orange daylily, Hemerocallis fulva https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1343108628663500803

BINGO

BINGO!

By Shellie Tabb July 19, 2020 July 19, 2020 1

Pressed Plants

Pressed Plant: American Twin flower

By Shellie Tabb July 19, 2020 July 19, 2020 2

Our family loves this dainty little plant that looks like fairy bells. We find it springing up in the forest at the foot of big cedar and hemlock and in the muskegs, as well.

Dichotomous Keys

Dichotomous Key

By Shellie Tabb July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020 2

Shellie Tabb Dichotomous Key A Plant has no flowers (PLANT 1) A1 Plant has flowers with petals white or purple B Plant has flowers with white petals (PLANT 2) B1 Plant has flowers with purple petals (PLANT 3) C Plant has flowers …

Introductions

Introduction

By Shellie Tabb June 26, 2020 June 26, 2020 1

Hi everyone! My name is Shellie and I live in Ketchikan, Alaska. I work for UAS Ketchikan in the Maritime department. I am working on an Indigenous Studies Master’s degree through UAF and focusing my studies on traditional plant uses here in SE Alaska. My husband and I moved to …