Indigenous

 

Food and Medicinal Uses:

Flowers are made into cordial drink in spring.

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Sth'íwéq'ehlp is rich in vitamins A, and C, and in calcium, potassium and iron. Remedy for constipation.

Washes are made to heal sores, rashes, blisters, and hemorrhoids.

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Uses:

Stems are easy to hollow out, and were used as whistles, drinking straws, blowguns, and pipe stems.

 

CAUTION: Stems, bark, leaves, berries and roots are poisonous.