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Ojibwe Naming of Wild Plants Dwight A. Gourneau Adapted from Michael Price’s TRIBES Presentation Wild Plant Name Suffixesin Ojibwe Language “-jiibik” – root “-imin” – berry, fruit, seed “-bag” – leaf “-pin” – potato-like, tuber “-aatig” – trunk, stem “-waak” – tree “-ashk” – long grassy stem “-mizh” – small tree, shrub “-aandag” – bough “Mashkii-” – bog Latin-Ojibwemowin Classification Round Leaf Sundew Waawiiye-niigeganzh (Drosera rotundifolia) Mashkiig – Bog or Peatland Mashkikii – “medicine from the earth or bog” Mashkiig – Bog or Peatland Mashkiigwaatig Tamarack (Larix laricina) Mashkiigomin Small Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) Mashkiig – Bog or Peatland Mashkiigobag Labrador Tea or Swamp Tea (Ledum groenlandicum) Mashkiigojiibik Marsh Five Finger (Potentilla palustris) Waabashkikii - Swamp Waabashkikii - Swamp Waabashkikiibag Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata) Meadow Sweet (Spiraea alba) Labrador or Swamp Tea (Ledum groenlandicum) Anungobikobiise “Star that lives on the water” White Water Lilly (Nymphaea odorata) Ladyslippers Makizinan “Moccasins” Yellow Ladyslipper (Cypripedium caleolus) Agobizowin “A remedy tied on a wound” Showy Ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae) Naming Categorization Descriptive Utility Medicinal Use Food Source Spirituality Descriptive Omakikiiwidaasan “Frog Leggings” Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) Waabooyaabag “Blanket Leaf” Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) Utility Miskojiibik Bloodroot (Sanquinaria canadensis) - Used as a red dye Ozaawijiibik Goldenthread (Coptis trifolia) - Used as a yellow dye Utility Anaakanashk “Anaakan – woven mat” Softstem Bulrush (Scirpus validus) Gichigamiwashk “Tall Grass of the Great Waters” Nabagashk “Tall Grass with Flat Leaf” Common Cattail (Typha latifolia) Utility Wiigwaasaatig Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera) Utility Aagimaak “Snowshoe-making tree” Aagim - snowshoe Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) Used to make snowshoes; Inner bark strips - baskets Medicinal Use Oshkinigi