Dryopteridaceae Dryopteris expansa (K. Presl) Fraser-Jenkins & Jermy

Spreading Woodfern

Eskimo, Alaska - Food, Unspecified

Use documented by:
Ager, Thomas A. and Lynn Price Ager, 1980, Ethnobotany of The Eskimos of Nelson Island, Alaska, Arctic Anthropology 27:26-48, page 34

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Scientific name: Dryopteris expansa (K. Presl) Fraser-Jenkins & Jermy
USDA symbol: DREX2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Spreading Woodfern
Family: Dryopteridaceae
Family (APG):
Native American Tribe: Eskimo, Alaska
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Fiddleheads, with the chaffy coverings removed, boiled and eaten with seal oil and dried fish.

RECRD: 32753 id: 12703

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