Ngetal Symbol: 
Sound value: Ng
Literal meaning: Wound
Pronounced as “NYEH-tal”
Northwest Europe
Features: Large deciduous shrub without spines, grows on sandy soils (Legume Family)
Uses: Branches used for sweeping brooms, sheltering windbreaks. Medicinal uses.
North Central Florida
Note: no direct local native equivalent found- this is not a Cytisus spp. plant, but has similar features to Broom.
Features: Small annual herb (Figwort Family)
Uses: Medicinal uses.#
Northwest Europe
Features: Perennial giant grass, grows in clumps at edges of water bodies & wetlands (Grass Family)
Uses: Thatching, stabilizing soil on river banks , runners sweet & used as fodder, used for fiber.
North Central Florida
Features: Perennial, evergreen grass, grows in wet & moist soils (Grass Family)
Uses: Plant: used by NAs for baskets, webbing, music instruments, arrow shafts, blowguns and darts. Good livestock forage. Medicinal uses. /

Switchcane (Arundinaria gigantea), Gainesville, Florida

Switchcane (Arundinaria gigantea), Gainesville, Florida
Northwest Europe
Features: Perennial plant, deciduous in winter; fern common in woods & grassland, preferring dry, acid soils (Dennstaedtiaceae Family)
Uses: Medicinal uses.
North Central Florida
Features: Perennial plant, deciduous in winter; fern common in woods & grassland, preferring dry, acid soils
(Legume FamilyDennstaedtiaceae Family)
Uses: Medicinal uses. /

Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum), Starke, Florida
Modern divinatory meaning: Cleansing, healing, restores harmony
Animal symbolism (based on traditional lore): hare
Bird symbolism (based on traditional lore): goose
Associated deities: Chiron
Color: grass green
Calendar: Ngethal is associated with the twelfth lunar month of the Celtic year, October. (Using the Celtic tree calendar system that has 13 ‘months’ starting in November, as popularized by Liz and Colin Murray. Other calendars are also used, most notably the calendar devised by the poet Robert Graves in his 1948 book White Goddess.)