Table 2 Edible uses of plants

  Alaria marginata Postels & Ruprecht

Blades

Midrib eaten raw, whole blade dried and added to boiling meat

–

Midrib eaten fresh in salads

  Allium shoenoprasum L.

Total

Leaves

Eaten fresh with meat

–

Salted to store

Flowers

–

–

Salted to store

  Petasites frigidus (L.) Fr.

Leaves

Gathered young, eaten with seal oil and meat

Stored in seal oil with Saxifraga nelsoniana

–

  Rhodiola integrifolia Raf.

Leaves, stems

Fermented, eaten later with meat and fat

Fermented juice was eaten with walrus chest

Eaten with sugar

  Eriophorum angustifolium Honck.

Tuber

–

Gathered from vole nests, eaten with seal oil

  Empetrum nigrum L.

Berries

Eaten plain, with seal oil

Stored in seal oil

Jam, kompot, juice, wine, eaten with sugar, reindeer stomach

  Vaccinium uliginosum L.

Berries

Eaten plain, with seal oil

Picked green, stored in seal oil

Jam, eaten with sugar

  Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

Berries

Eaten plain, with seal oil

Jam, kompot, mors, eaten with sugar, put in tea

  Hedysarum hedysaroides (L.) Schinz & Thell.

Tuber

Harvested from ground in the fall, eaten with sea mammal fat

Harvested from vole caches, roots stored in oil for winter

–

  Fucus evanescens C.Agardh

Receptacles

–

–

Eaten raw

  Laminaria saccharina (L.) Lamouroux

Blades

Eaten raw, dried and put in with boiling meat

–

Put in Russian style salad, pirogi

  Claytonia acutifolia Pall. ex Schult.

Tuber

–

Boiled in liquid sea mammal fat and eaten with meat

–

  Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Schult.

Tuber

–

Boiled in liquid sea mammal fat and eaten with meat

–

  Epilobium latifolium L.

Leaves

Lightly boiled, pressed and stored moist, eaten with meat

–

Dried to store

  Pedicularis verticillata L.

Total

Flowers

Eaten fresh on the tundra

–

Put in with fermenting Rhodiola

Tuber

–

Eaten raw with seal oil

–

  Persicaria bistorta (L.)

Total

Leaves

Eaten with seal oil and dried meat

–

–

Flowers

Eaten raw with seal oil and meat, children eat plain

–

–

Tuber

–

Eaten raw with seal oil

  Oxyria digyna (L.) Hill

Total

Leaves

Eaten fresh with meat, seal oil and other greens

–

Mors, kompot, kisel, put in soup, eaten with vegetable oil

Flowers

Eaten fresh with seal oil, plain

Drink made with water

Eaten with soup

  Polygonum tripterocarpum A. Gray ex Rothr.

Leaves, stems

Eaten with seal oil

–

Eaten with seal oil and seal blood

  Rumex arcticus Trautv.

Total

Leaves

Store in seal oil with Saxifraga nelsoniana, eaten with meat

–

Kompot, jam, put in soups, salads, fermented with Rhodiola

flowers

Eaten with seal oil

Boiled in water to make drink

Kompot

  Anemone sibirica L.

Aerial parts

–

Put in seal oil with Saxifraga nelsoniana for taste

–

  Dryas incisa Juz.

Flowers

Eaten fresh with seal oil and dried meat

–

Eaten in Russian style salads

  Rubus chamaemorus L.

Berries

Eaten plain, with seal oil, with other berries

Stored in seal oil, eaten with reindeer fat

Jam, kompot, syrup, eaten with sugar, kefir

  Salix pulchra Cham.

Leaves

Put in fresh with boiling meat

Walrus skin cooked in juice

Dried or stored moist, eaten with boiled meat

  Salix arctica Pall.

Total

Leaves

–

Eaten with seal oil and meat

–

Flowers

–

Eaten with seal oil and meat, kids chewed new buds like gum

–

  Saxifraga nelsoniana D. Don

Leaves

Leaves stored in seal oil, eaten with meat

–

–

  Saxifraga oppositifolia L.

Flowers

–

Eaten with sea mammal oil and dried meat

–