#paunnat

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😩 this is the best picture of paunnat I was able to take today, it’s fucken wimby y’all.

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Paunnat/Dwarf Fireweed

Every part of the flower is edible- the leaves, flowers and seedpods. Paunnat tea is good for stomachaches, and for strength after someone bleeds a lot. The leaves are also chewed on to stop nose bleeds, and is believed to help with stomach aches.

(All information is from Common Plants of Nunavut by Carolyn Mallory and Susan Aiken)

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Arctic Thrift/Sea Pink/“Carnation”

According to Common Plants of Nunavut by Carolyn Mallory and Susan Aiken, the Inuktitut name for the light pink flowers is “Carnation”, it gained that name because after the qallunat (southerners- but more specifically refers to white people, actually translates to basically “people with good eyebrows”) arrived with Carnation brand evaporated milk. The drawing of the flower on the can was thought to resembled this flower.

The white flowers behind the Carnations is Malikkaat (the name for them in Pangnirtung)/Isuqtannguat (the name for them in Kingait)/ Isurramuat or Mountain Avens.

Then two of the flowers in the forfront are Alpine Milk-Vetch (no Inuktitut name given, it’s the purple one on the right), and the one on the left is a Paunnat/Dwarf Fireweed that has not bloomed yet.

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Paunnat