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Sword Fern
Polystichum munitum ~ Fern Family
Lummi: leleki’
Nooksack: sá7aqálin
Ethnobotany
Fronds used to line steam-cooking pits
& for bedding
Characteristics
Ferns are ancient plants with spores instead
of seeds, which appear as brown dots on the
leaf’s underside; one dot has many spores
Common evergreen fern growing in moist
forests, reaching four feet tall
Erect leaves uncoil from a scaly rhizome
Sponsors
Artist
City of Bellingham
Washington State Department of Ecology
Savannah McGhee
Whatcom Middle School