Perennials


  COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME USAGES
1. elderberry Sambucus food, pipes, medicine,  instruments, dye
2. cottonwood Populus medicine, construction, handles
3. oak Quercus food, dye
4. sycamore Platanus medicine, construction
5. walnut Juglans food, medicine
6. sage Salvia food, medicine, fiber, smudge
7. manzanita Arctostaphylos food
8. wild lilac Ceanothus medicine
9. creosote Larrea tridentata medicine
10. fan palm Washingtonia filifera food, thatching, basketry, walking sticks, mortars,
11. cholla, beavertail Opuntia food, dye
12. sedge Carex containers
13. yucca Yucca whipplei food, fiber
14. pinon pine Pinus food, sealant, adhesive
15. cedar Cedrus construction, fiber, medicine, smudge
16. mesquite Prosopis food, construction
17. juniper Juniperus tea, medicine, bows
18. sunflower Helianthus food, medicine
19. alder Alnus dye
20. birch Betula medicine, containers, siding, construction
21. willow Salix medicine, containers, construction, bows, clothing
22.  hemp Apocyna fiber
23. milkweed Asclepias fiber
24. iris Iris fiber
25. soaproot Chlorogalum food, fiber, soap, fishing
26. juncus Juncus effigies, containers, mats
27. deer grass Muhlinbergia food, containers
28. red bud Cercis containers
29. maple Acer food, fuel, construction
30. tule Typhus food, fiber, containers, boats, thatch, decoys, clothing, pigment
31. basket plant Rhus trilobata containers
32. hazel Corylus food, containers
33. strawberries, raspberries, blackberries Rosaceae  food
34. spruce Picea containers, dye
35. yew Taxus bows, medicine
36. chamise Adenostoma fuel, construction
37.  elm Elmus house siding
38. ash   basketry 
39.  rose Rosa food, medicine
40. choke cherry Prunus food
41. wild plum Condalia food
42. sea weed   salt
43. service berry Amelanchier food
44. madrone Arbutus medicine
45. wormwood Artemesia medicine, arrow shafts, construction, granaries
46. saltbush Atriplex food, soap
47. ribbonwood   absorbent diapers
48. lemonade berry Rhus integrifolia lemonade-like drink
48. desert willow Chilopsis construction, fiber, food, bows, shade
49. buckwheat Eriogonum fasciulatum food
50. grape Vitaceae food
51. Indian potato Brodiaea food
52. chalk lettuce Dudleya food
53. currant Ribes food
54. tobacco Nicotiana medicine, religion, pleasure
55. agave Agave desertii  
56. jojoba Simmondsia chinensis food
57. angel of death, loco weed, jimson weed, thornapple Datura sp. medicine, puberty rites