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Indigenous Plants & Native Uses in the Northeast
PARTRIDGE BERRY PARTRIDGE BERRY
(Mitchela repens)
PARTRIDGE BERRY

PARTRIDGE BERRY

Food: The scarlet berry is edible but almost tasteless, and remains on the plant all winter.

Medicine: In their final weeks of pregnancy Indian women drank a tea from the leaves to ease childbirth. Nursing mothers made a lotion from the leaves to relieve breast soreness.

Note: Also called Squaw Vine or Squaw Berry.

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