Plant # 35
Collectors Name: Lee W. McDowell
Photo & date
Date: 1 August 2006
Black Hills National Forest,
Custer County, South Dakota
Photo & date
Photo & date
Date: 1 August 2006
Black Hills National Forest, Custer County, South
Dakota
Lakota name of plant: “haηte” (juniper or cedar)
Common English name of plant: Common Juniper
Botanical Name: Juniperus communis
Native Range: Understory shrub of spruce and pine forests
Season of Growth: Evergreen perennial
Plant Family: Cupressaceae, Cypress
Common Use:
Crushed berries can be ground for meal or mush cakes
Source of “oil of juniper”, used in making gin
Berries used to flavor roast meat
References:
Larson, Gary E., James R. Johnson. 1999. Plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains.
South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. (p. 504)
Rogers, Dilwyn J 1980 Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule)
People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota. St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Society (p. 25
#2)
Schrader, Leonard L., Raymond C. Kinch, and Elmer E. Sanderson. 1956. South Dakota Weeds.
South Dakota State College, Brookings, South Dakota. (p. )
Stubbendieck, J., Stephan L. Hatch, and Kathie J. Hirsch. 1986. North American Range Plants.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London. (p. )
Morgan, George Robert. Winter 1990. “Oglala Sioux Use of Medicinal Herbs” Great Plains
Quarterly. pp. (18-35)
Range Plant ID Form r1001
Agriculture & Natural Resource Department
Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, SD 57752