Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings Flowers shade* Soil needs: moist or

shade* Soil needs: moist or wet* Bloom Time: Spring summer* Portland Plant List (Backyard Habitat Certification): YesLandscape Use and Ecological Function:

cultivated for its blanched tender delicate ivory-colored leaf stalks that can be boiled or steamed to provide a good source of vitamin C

"The Butterscotch Pear" A prolific producer of very large and delicious fruit with dark-golden skin

Fruit in mid summer

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings Flowers shade* Soil needs: moist orMary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice, and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in