Choose one of the categories above for a list of plant-related websites. Selected websites are all non-commercial, without advertisements, and free-access sites. The links provided have all been checked as of March 1, 2018; however, websites are occasionally moved or deleted without notice by the authors or sponsoring agency. If you do encounter a link that no longer works or a website that has changed location, please report the problematic link to the NOPD so that we can update the link.

First Nations Plant Information

Berry Plants for Women's Nutrition and Medicine

A very interesting website by Katsi Cook, an Akwesasne Mohawk, with descriptions of the traditional use of several fruit plants.

Iskatewizaagegan (Shoal Lake) Plant Knowledge: An Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Ethnobotany of Northwestern Ontario

A 2005 article by I.J. Davidson-Hund, P. Jack, E. Mandamin, and B. Wapioke on traditional uses of plant in northwestern Ontario, with a focus on maintaining land-based activities to perpetuate traditional knowledge.

Mazina'igan - A Chronicle of the Lake Superior Ojibwe

This very impressive free quarterly newspaper, published by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, contains informative articles on traditional hunting, fishing, plant harvesting, culture, and language. The above link brings you to a list of past issues from Volume 1 (Dec. 1983) to the present. Each issue contains, for example, information on harvest opportunities for that season and lists plants according to their traditional Ojibwe and English common names.

Native American Ethnobotany

A very complete database of plants used by Native Peoples of North America as drugs, food, dyes, fibers, and more. Type in the common or scientific name to access information. Based on the indispensable reference book of the same name by Dan Moerman, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

The Four Sacred Medicines

An article from Anishnawbe Heath Toronto summarizing the importance of tobacco, sage, cedar, and sweetgrass. Also presented in a brochure format.

Traditional Herbal & Plant Knowledge, Identifications

This fascinating website, written by the late Paula Giese, contains interesting articles of several plants, such as Labrador tea, wintergreen, cedar, and red sumac, used by First Nations People.

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

A PDF file of this 1991 paper by H.V. Kuhnlein and N.J. Turner; a list of chapters is provided at the bottom of the website. See Chapter 4: Descriptions and Uses of Plant Foods by Indigenous Peoples, which provides historical accounts of plant uses, but also warnings on parts of plants that should not be eaten, or which poisonous plants might be confused with the plant described.