Leaves
Dugaayuk Iñupiaq Name: Dugaayuk phonetic spelling: do-kuy-yuk plural: Dugaayuuit translation /other information none known English Name: Wild celery Scientific Name Lingusticum scoticum Source: (Fern) Calder & Taylor p.35
Dugaayuk is a wild celery that grows to about 2 feet tall and has a beautiful, red, lower stems. The leaves are very similar to domestic celery found in grocery stores. The umbrella shaped flower heads are pinkish. It must be collected before the flowers develop on the plant, otherwise the plant becomes too "bony", as everyone describes to be hard and woody. I image this wild celery contain large amounts of cellulose as does domestic celery and the "bony-ness" comes from the strings of cellulose.  Dugaayuk is a widely used plant in Golovin, that grows profusely in town, on the sandy areas of Golovin. It is not uncommon to see a villager walk right outside his or her house to gather dugaayuk to use with dinner. Dugaayuk has many food uses. It can be packed between dry fish in storage for winter, used to flavor the fish. Or a handful of dugaayuk may be boiled with fresh or half dried fish, called animak , to make soup. Or it can be wilted and stored in seal oil for use later in the winter. The greens just described would have been stored in barrels in the old days; but now, they are likely to be put in glass jars, like pickle or mayonnaise jars, and stored in the freezer.