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T'aqá:lhp
(plant)
T'áqa
(berry)
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
Origins
INDIGENOUS
INTRODUCED
Niche/Zone
1
2
3
4
Ecology
Grows at Low to middle elevations.
Commonly found in: Coniferous forests, rocky bluffs, seashores.
Uses
Food
- Sweet berries are eaten ripe in August or dried as cakes. Also makes excellent jam and jelly.
Medicine
- Medicine for diarrhea and coughs.
Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Currant, Red Flowering • Devil’s Club • Elderberry, Red • Hawthorn, Black • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Huckleberry, Evergreen • Huckleberry, Oval-leaved / Black • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Mountain Ash, Sitka • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Osoberry / June Plum / Indian Plum • Salmonberry • Saskatoon Berry • Soapberry • Strawberry, Wild • Thimbleberry
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Blackberry, Himalayan • Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Dandelion • Dock, Bitter / Round-Leaved • Dock, Yellow / Curly (aka Wild rhubarb) • Elderberry, Red • Fir, Douglas • Ginger, Wild Western • Hawthorn, Black • Hazelnut, Beaked • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Horsetail, Common • Horsetail, Giant • Huckleberry, Red • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Lily, Chocolate • Lily, Tiger • Mountain Ash, Sitka • Mushroom, Pine • Nettle, Stinging (aka Indian spinach) • Onion, Nodding • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Osoberry / June Plum / Indian Plum • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Primrose, Evening (aka Evening Star, or King’s Cure-All) • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Salmonberry • Saskatoon Berry • Sheep Sorrel / Sour Weed • Siberian Miner’s Lettuce / Springbeauty • Soapberry • Spruce, Sitka • Strawberry, Wild • Thimbleberry • Watercress
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Alder, Red • Avens, Large Leaved • Blackberry, Himalayan • Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Bleeding Heart, Pacific • Burdock • Cascara • Cattail Rush • Cedar, Western Red • Cherry, Wild Bitter • Clover, Red • Clover, White • Coltsfoot • Cottonwood • Currant, Red Flowering • Dandelion • Devil’s Club • Dock, Bitter / Round-Leaved • Dock, Yellow / Curly (aka Wild rhubarb) • Dogbane, Spreading • Dogwood, Red-Osier • Elderberry, Red • Fern, Licorice • Fern, Parsley (aka American Rockbrake) • Fern, Sword • Fir, Douglas • Ginger, Wild Western • Hawthorn, Black • Hazelnut, Beaked • Heal-all, Self-heal • Hellebore, False Green / Indian • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Horsetail, Common • Huckleberry, Red • Juniper • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Labrador Tea / Swamp Tea • Maple, Broadleaf / Bigleaf • Maple, Vine • Mock Orange • Mountain Ash, Sitka • Nettle, Stinging (aka Indian spinach) • Oceanspray (aka Ironwood) • Onion, Nodding • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Osoberry / June Plum / Indian Plum • Pacific Ninebark • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Primrose, Evening (aka Evening Star, or King’s Cure-All) • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Saskatoon Berry • Sheep Sorrel / Sour Weed • Siberian Miner’s Lettuce / Springbeauty • Skunk Cabbage • Spiraea / Western Hardhack • Spruce, Sitka • St. John’s Wort, Common • Strawberry, Wild • Tansy • Trillium • Usnea (aka Old Man’s Beard) • Watercress • Willow, Sitka • Yarrow • Yellow Pond-Lily / Spatterdock • Yew, Pacific / Western
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Cedar, Western Red • Cherry, Wild Bitter • Clover, Red • Clover, White • Coltsfoot • Dock, Bitter / Round-Leaved • Fern, Licorice • Fir, Douglas • Heal-all, Self-heal • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Labrador Tea / Swamp Tea • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Primrose, Evening (aka Evening Star, or King’s Cure-All) • Spruce, Sitka • St. John’s Wort, Common
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Avens, Large Leaved • Blackberry, Himalayan • Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Cattail Rush • Coltsfoot • Dock, Bitter / Round-Leaved • Dogwood, Red-Osier • Fern, Licorice • Fir, Douglas • Ginger, Wild Western • Hawthorn, Black • Hazelnut, Beaked • Heal-all, Self-heal • Hemlock, Western • Horsetail, Common • Labrador Tea / Swamp Tea • Mock Orange • Nettle, Stinging (aka Indian spinach) • Oceanspray (aka Ironwood) • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Sheep Sorrel / Sour Weed • Spiraea / Western Hardhack • Spruce, Sitka • St. John’s Wort, Common • Strawberry, Wild • Yarrow
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Alder, Red • Avens, Large Leaved • Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Bleeding Heart, Pacific • Burdock • Cascara • Cattail Rush • Cedar, Western Red • Cherry, Wild Bitter • Coltsfoot • Cottonwood • Currant, Red Flowering • Devil’s Club • Dogbane, Spreading • Dogwood, Red-Osier • Elderberry, Red • Fern, Licorice • Fern, Parsley (aka American Rockbrake) • Fern, Sword • Fir, Douglas • Ginger, Wild Western • Hazelnut, Beaked • Heal-all, Self-heal • Hellebore, False Green / Indian • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Horsetail, Common • Horsetail, Giant • Huckleberry, Evergreen • Huckleberry, Oval-leaved / Black • Huckleberry, Red • Juniper • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Labrador Tea / Swamp Tea • Lily, Chocolate • Lily, Tiger • Maple, Broadleaf / Bigleaf • Maple, Vine • Mock Orange • Mountain Ash, Sitka • Mushroom, Pine • Nettle, Stinging (aka Indian spinach) • Oceanspray (aka Ironwood) • Onion, Nodding • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Osoberry / June Plum / Indian Plum • Pacific Ninebark • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Primrose, Evening (aka Evening Star, or King’s Cure-All) • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Salmonberry • Saskatoon Berry • Siberian Miner’s Lettuce / Springbeauty • Skunk Cabbage • Soapberry • Spiraea / Western Hardhack • Spruce, Sitka • St. John’s Wort, Common • Strawberry, Wild • Thimbleberry • Trillium • Usnea (aka Old Man’s Beard) • Vanilla Leaf • Willow, Sitka • Yarrow • Yellow Pond-Lily / Spatterdock • Yew, Pacific / Western
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Cedar, Western Red • Cherry, Wild Bitter • Clover, Red • Clover, White • Cottonwood • Dandelion • Devil’s Club • Dock, Bitter / Round-Leaved • Dock, Yellow / Curly (aka Wild rhubarb) • Elderberry, Red • Fern, Licorice • Fir, Douglas • Hawthorn, Black • Hazelnut, Beaked • Heal-all, Self-heal • Hellebore, False Green / Indian • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Huckleberry, Red • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Lily, Chocolate • Maple, Broadleaf / Bigleaf • Maple, Vine • Mock Orange • Oceanspray (aka Ironwood) • Pacific Ninebark • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Primrose, Evening (aka Evening Star, or King’s Cure-All) • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Siberian Miner’s Lettuce / Springbeauty • Skunk Cabbage • Thimbleberry
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Alder, Red • Avens, Large Leaved • Blackberry, Himalayan • Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Bleeding Heart, Pacific • Burdock • Cascara • Cattail Rush • Cedar, Western Red • Cherry, Wild Bitter • Clover, Red • Clover, White • Cottonwood • Currant, Red Flowering • Dandelion • Devil’s Club • Dock, Bitter / Round-Leaved • Dock, Yellow / Curly (aka Wild rhubarb) • Dogbane, Spreading • Dogwood, Red-Osier • Elderberry, Red • Fern, Licorice • Fern, Parsley (aka American Rockbrake) • Fern, Sword • Fir, Douglas • Ginger, Wild Western • Hawthorn, Black • Hazelnut, Beaked • Heal-all, Self-heal • Hellebore, False Green / Indian • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Horsetail, Common • Horsetail, Giant • Huckleberry, Red • Juniper • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Labrador Tea / Swamp Tea • Lily, Chocolate • Lily, Tiger • Maple, Broadleaf / Bigleaf • Maple, Vine • Mock Orange • Nettle, Stinging (aka Indian spinach) • Oceanspray (aka Ironwood) • Onion, Nodding • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Osoberry / June Plum / Indian Plum • Pacific Ninebark • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Primrose, Evening (aka Evening Star, or King’s Cure-All) • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Salmonberry • Saskatoon Berry • Sheep Sorrel / Sour Weed • Siberian Miner’s Lettuce / Springbeauty • Skunk Cabbage • Soapberry • Spiraea / Western Hardhack • Spruce, Sitka • St. John’s Wort, Common • Strawberry, Wild • Tansy • Thimbleberry • Trillium • Vanilla Leaf • Watercress • Willow, Sitka • Yarrow • Yellow Pond-Lily / Spatterdock
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Avens, Large Leaved • Blackberry, Wild Trailing • Blackcap • Bleeding Heart, Pacific • Cascara • Cattail Rush • Cedar, Western Red • Cherry, Wild Bitter • Clover, Red • Clover, White • Cottonwood • Currant, Red Flowering • Dandelion • Devil’s Club • Dogbane, Spreading • Dogwood, Red-Osier • Fern, Parsley (aka American Rockbrake) • Fern, Sword • Fir, Douglas • Hemlock, Western • Honeysuckle, Wild / Orange • Horsetail, Common • Horsetail, Giant • Juniper • Kinnikinnik / Bearberry (aka Indian tobacco) • Lily, Chocolate • Lily, Tiger • Maple, Broadleaf / Bigleaf • Maple, Vine • Mountain Ash, Sitka • Mushroom, Pine • Oceanspray (aka Ironwood) • Onion, Nodding • Oregon Grape, Dull / Short • Pacific Ninebark • Plantain, Common / Broad Leaf • Plantain, Ribber / Sword • Rose, Nootka / Wild • Saskatoon Berry • Sheep Sorrel / Sour Weed • Soapberry • Spiraea / Western Hardhack • Spruce, Sitka • St. John’s Wort, Common • Thimbleberry • Yarrow • Yellow Pond-Lily / Spatterdock
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