Name

Scientific Name

Edible Use

Preparation

Other Uses

Honeydew made by aphids made of sugar. The inner bark and sap

Collected and boiled, leaf let to dry to have sugar

Wood burns easy and is very bright. It is soft to start a fire with a hand drill. Aspirin is also in Quaking Aspen.

Quaking Aspen

Populous termuloides

Narrowleaf Cottonwood

Populous angustifolia

Ponderosa Pine

Pinus Ponderosa

Eat the seeds.

Charcoal cones in fire and knock the seeds out.

Wood used for building materials. Can also be used in fires.

Bristlecone Pine

Pinus aristata

Logpole Pine

Pinus contorta

Limber Pine

Pinus flexilis

Pinion Pine

Pinus edulis

Rocky Mountain Maple

Acer glabrum

The Inner Bark is edible and the sap is made into sugar.

The Inner Bark is pounded into flour. The sap is boiled down. The Somara is pounded into flour.

Digging Sticks, Bow and Arrows. Can also be used as building material.

Box Elder

Acer negundo

Bigtooth maple

Acer grandidentatum

Squaw Bush

Rhus trilobata

Berries served as an emergency food and drink.

Dry berries and flavor water with them, much like tea.

None

Smooth Sumac

Rhus glabra

Currleaf Cercocarpus

Corcocarpus ledifolius

Seeds are eaten.

Seeds are roasted.

None

Poison Ivy

Toxicondendron radicans

None

None

None, stay away and do not touch.

Red-Oiser Dogwood

Comus stolonifera

None

None

Inner bark is used for tobacco and has a sort of a stupefying effect.

River Hawthorne

Crataegus rivularis

Berries are good food for long-term storage.

Berries made into dry cakes and can be put into pemmican.

None

Cliffrose

Cowania mexicana

Deer eat cliffrose.

None

None

White Fir

Abies concolor

See Pinus

See Pinus

See Pinus

Subalpine Fir

Abies lasiocarpa

Mountain Ash

Sorbus scopulina

None

None

None

Utah Serviceberry

Amelanchier Utahensis

Berries can be used

Berries cooked or dried, mixed with jerky for pemmican.

None

Thinleaf Alder

Alnus tenuifolia

None

None

None

Common Chokecherry

Prunus virginiana

Cherries are eaten.

Whole plant contains cyanide so only cherries are eaten. Boil seeds.

Hardwood, building materials, and fires.

Utah Juniper

Juniperus osteosperma

Blueberries are nutritious, inner bark is eaten.

Blueberries are pounded, boiled, and leached of tannic acid. Inner bark is pounded.

Juniper bark can make the finest tinder available. The broken up juniper bark can hold a spark.

Rocky Mountain Juniper

Juniperus scopulorum

Colorado Blue Spruce

Picae pungens

See Pinus

See Pinus

See Pinus

Gamble Oak

Quercus garmbelii

Acorn can be eaten

Acorn is boiled and leached of tannic acid.

Wood, material for building.

Water Birch

Betula occidentalis

None

None

Birch bark for a canoe, very slow to absorb water.

Willow

Salix

None

None

Contains Aspirin.

Joshua Tree

Yucca breuifolia

None

None

Used as a needle.

Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii

See Pinus

See Pinus

See Pinus