...name implies, is a much taller plant. According to the book "Wildflowers of the BWCA and the North Shore" by Mark Sparky Stensaas, blueberries are known as "meenum" in the Ojibwe language. Gathered, dried and stored the berries, along...

...The fruit is a black berry. According to a delightful book, "Wildflowers of the BWCA and the North Shore" by Mark Sparky Stensaas, trillium seeds have attached fat globules called elaiosomes that are coveted by ants. The globules are high...

...grass, hare's-tail rush and single-headed cotton grass are other tags that have been given to this plant. Mark Sparky Stensaas, in "Wildflowers of the BWCA and the North Shore," notes that researchers unearthed seeds of sheathed cotton...