Other Uses of Plants
Plants can be used for things other then medicine and food. Below is a list of plants and some of their uses:
| Arrows: | |
| Black Maple | |
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Striped Maple |
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| Silver Maple | |
| Sugar Maple | |
| Mountain Maple | |
| Birch | |
| Willow | |
| Animal Bait: | |
| Common Yarrow (Dried Flowers) | |
| Awls: | |
| Thornapple (thorns) | |
| Oak | |
| Baskets: | |
| Cattail | |
| Japanese Honeysuckle | |
| Bows: | |
| Sugar Maple | |
| Hickory | |
| Birch | |
| Buttons: | |
| Hardwoods | |
| Bowls: | |
| Cedar | |
| Birch | |
| Broom: | |
| Ash | |
| Canes & Handles: | |
| Dogwood | |
| Oak | |
| Ash | |
| Canoes: | |
| Birch bark | |
| Chair Backing & Mats: | |
| Rushes | |
| Cattail | |
| Cloth: | |
| Sunflower (Fiber from the Stalks) | |
| Cattail stalks | |
| Cookware: | |
| Hardwood (tree stumps) dug out like a bowl | |
| Deodorant: | |
| Cleavers (Leaves) | |
| Diaper Material: | |
| Cattail (down) | |
| Moss | |
| Drum sticks: | |
| Hazelnut | |
| Dyes: | |
| Sunflower (Flowers) Yellow | |
| Butternut (Husks) Grey, (Wood) Purple | |
| Sugar Maple (Bark) Brown | |
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Mountain Alder (Inner bark) Yellow |
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| Bedstraw (Root) Red – (Tops) Yellow | |
| Blackberry (Root, shoots) Orange | |
| Common Burdock (Root) Yellow | |
| Chicory (Leaves) Blue, Yellow, Gold, Green & Beige | |
| Dandelion (Root) Orange-brown – (Fresh flowers) Yellow | |
| Elderberry Berries) Green, Violet, Blue/Lilac, Black & Red< | |
| Goldenrod (Leaves, Flowers, & Stems) Yellow | |
| Goldenseal (Flowers) Yellow | |
| Jack-In-The-Pulpit (Berries) Red | |
| Spotted Jewelweed (Flowers) Yellow | |
| Joe-pye-weed (Flowers) Reddish | |
| Larkspur (Flowers) Blue | |
| Birch (leaves) Yellow | |
| Black Walnut (Hulls) Black/brown | |
| Sassafras (root) Pink - Brown | |
| Fire making: | |
| Cattail (Torches) Brown Flower Heads | |
| Ohio Buckeye (Fire drill) | |
| Milkweed (Tinder) Fluff | |
| Pine Cones (tinder) | |
| Hair Growth: | |
| Wild Ginger | |
| Ink: | |
| Sumac (Berries, leaves) | |
| Larkspur | |
| Elderberry (berries) | |
| Oak (gall nuts) | |
| Insect Repellant: | |
| Cattail – Brown Flower Heads | |
| Pennyroyal (Leaves) | |
| Common Yarrow (Leaves & Stems) Smudge | |
| Black Cohosh (Whole plant) | |
| Sweet Everlasting (Flowers) | |
| Red Cedar (wood) moths | |
| Sassafras (wood) Moths | |
| Insect Bites: | |
| Mayweed | |
| Insulation: | |
| Common Milkweed (Fluffy Seeds) | |
| Cattail (down from the tops) | |
| Mats: | |
| Cattail (leaves) | |
| Moccasins: | |
| Mouthwash: | |
| Strawberry (Leaves) | |
| Pillows & Bedding: | |
| Evergreen (boughs) | |
| Pipestems: | |
| Maple | |
| Oak | |
| Pitch: | |
| Spruce (gum) | |
| Pine (tar) | |
| Roofing: | |
| Evergreen (boughs) | |
| Bark | |
| Cattail | |
| Leaves | |
| Rope & Twine: | |
| Japanese Honeysuckle | |
| Linden Tree (Strong Rope) – Fibrous Inner Bark | |
| Milkweed – Inner bark | |
| Basswood (inner bark) | |
| False Nettle | |
| Rust Remover: | |
| Sandpaper: | |
| Horsetail (stems) | |
| Sealant: | |
| Mountain Alder (Wood charcoal mixed with pitch) | |
| Pine (tar) | |
| Sleds: | |
| Ash | |
| Snowshoe frames: | |
| Ash (limbs) | |
| Soap: | |
| Soapwort | |
| Cleavers (Leaves) | |
| Stun Fish: | |
| Ohio Buckeye (Pulverized nuts) | |
| Black Walnut (hulls) | |
| Sugar: | |
| Maple (sap) | |
| Box Elder (sap) | |
| Hickory (sap) | |
| Birch (sap) | |
| Ash (sap) | |
| Tanning Solution: | |
| Oak (bark) | |
| Walnut (bark) | |
| Thread: | |
| Spruce (roots) to sew canoes | |
| Tobacco: | |
| Coltsfoot (Leaves) | |
| Wild Comfrey (Leaves) | |
| Willow (leaves) | |
| Dogwood (leaves) | |
| Toothbrush: | |
| Oak (small branches) | |
| Juniper (small branches) | |
| Dogwood (small branches) | |
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Toothpaste & Tooth Cleanser: |
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| Prickly Ash (bark crushed) | |
| Torches: | |
|
Cattail (stems with tops attached) |
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| Rushes | |
| Utensils Eating/Cooking: | |
| Oak, Maple, hardwood (1/4 “ diameter trunk) eggbeater | |
| Horsetail (tops) scouring brush | |
| Cedar – (wood carved) spoons, forks | |
| Birch | |
| Water: | |
| Grapevine | |
| Wax: | |
| Bayberry (Fruit) | |
| Weather Predictor: | |
| Whistles: | |
| Elderberry (stems) |
