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This is a picture taken by Edward S. Curtis when he visited the Quw’utsun’ mustimuhw in 1913. Ruby Peter — Sti’tum’at explains the picture in Hul’q’umi’num’.
This small, much-branched evergreen shrub bears long, often drooping leaves that are covered with dense, rusty hairs on the lower surface. The clustered white flowers produce small, drooping capsules. Labrador tea inhabits swamps and bogs from low to middle elevations along the entire coast of the province.
The leaves of this bog-loving plant may be used to make a fragrant tea.
