The black walnut mainly grows in bottomland flood plains but also can be found on hilltops where the seeds were most likely planted by squirrels.

Blackberries have been used as a food for many generations by Cherokees. Blackberry plants have also been used in medicine.

Bloodroot can be found growing just about anywhere in the Cherokee Nation. It is short-lived and goes dormant during mid-summer after the seeds mature.

Buckbrush has been used for many generations by Cherokees in such crafts as basketry and other forms of weaving.

Dogwood leaves have been used for treatments of skin infections and rashes due to certain antiseptic and disinfectant properties.

Eastern Red Cedar can be found in just about every type of habitat, throughout all of Oklahoma, except the Panhandle.

Huckleberries, when not eaten raw, are used in baking and are put in such food as pancakes and breads, and jellies and jams are also made from the sweet fruit.

Osage Orange wood is renowned for its use in crafting Cherokee bows. It is not an easy wood to carve but affords itself to strong, fast, and durable bows.

Persimmons were eaten raw by Cherokees, and also used to make persimmon bread, and would also dry the fruit to make “prunes”.

Rattlesnake Master is known by Cherokee experts as a “warrior’s plant” and as a “survival kit.”