From Powhatan's garden: Learn about Indians with native plants that still thrive, four centuries later.

From: Daily Press (Newport News, VA) | Date: March 11, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Kathy Van Mullekom

Mar. 11--Naturalists today often look at phragmites as a pesky, invasive grass. The 17th-century Powhatan Indians, however, considered it a valuable part of their lifestyle. In winter and spring, Indians gathered the common reed in large armloads and wove it into mats for inside and outside their houses. They also crafted the reeds, which grow 6 feet tall in fresh water and brackish tidal marshes, into arrow shafts and quivers. Huge swaths of phragmites ring the edges of Powhatan Creek on the approach to Jamestown Island where a new visitor's ...

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