Our Gardens’ Small Cranberry (also called Swamp Cranberry) is being established on a sphagnum bog (peat) by Kiosk 6, that bog also in the process of being established. The irony is that this area was a series of north-south bogs between similarly situated sandstone folding hills (giving the up/down nature to 300^th NW Street) before the building of the I-5 Freeway. When more plentiful (such as in northern Canada), it is an important stable of indigenous diets. A member of the Ericaceae Family, it grows by Kiosk 06.  Pilchuck Learning Center’s sponsored Western Washington State University SAM Project extinction possibility is slight as it is found in other areas of North America.

http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Vaccinium+oxycoccos
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Vaccinium%20oxycoccos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_oxycoccos
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=VAOX
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-06.pdf
http://www.burkemuseum.org/research-and-collections/botany-and-herbarium/collections/database/results.php?Genus=Vaccinium&Species=oxycoccos&SourcePage=search.php&IncludeSynonyms=Y&SortBy=DESC&SortOrder=Year

What part of the Swamp Cranberry was/is widely used by the Indigenous Peoples for food.

leaves
roots
berries

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