Entry Detail


cranberry


Entry Type:  
Species
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
cranberry
Myaamia Name:  
neehpikicia

Media 
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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 Use - Food

 "napikitca, cranberry"

Rafert, S. 1989 Use - Food

Fruits were eaten: "Grandpa [Abraham Marks] canned cranberries.

Rafert, S. 1989 Habitat

"This area, northern part of the country [i.e. northern Wabash County, which still has several lakes and marshy areas] had wild cranberries, and huckleberries. But this area didn't have 'em. They had to be around a swampy area, around these buckbrush swamp wetlands. . . That's a spot in the woods where the bracken grows, and the edge of where the bracken grows is where you'll find the cranberries, in the marshy area".

Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 Habitat

Occurs in swamps and bogs in eastern Myaamia lands.

Botanical Sources  
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Related Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Gonella, M.P 2003-2006  

The Myaamia word given here probably refers to either cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) or small cranberry (V. oxycoccus)--both these two listed in Coulter 1899. Both these species plus mountain cranberry (V. vitis-idaea) are listed in Gleason and Cronquist 1991. Cranberry (V. macrocarpon) is the one most commonly listed and was chosen as the probable representative of neehpikica.