Dryopteridaceae Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth

Common Ladyfern

Karok - Other, Cooking Tools

Use documented by:
Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 20

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Scientific name: Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth
USDA symbol: ATFIA (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Common Ladyfern
Family: Dryopteridaceae
Family (APG):
Native American Tribe: Karok
Use category: Other
Use sub-category: Cooking Tools
Notes: Leaves used to clean eel's blood from butchered eel.

RECRD: 5818 id: 6573

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