In my smoking mixture, I use Red Willow (Red Osier Dogwood), Sumac, Uva Ursi, and Tobacco. Try adding some Uva Ursi (aka Bearberry) to your mix. In some places, Uva Ursi is what was known as Kinnikinnick by itself. Some people add shredded Osha Root to their mix and this is good, too. Around here, tons of stuff was and is smoked and it all has a name as this "smoke" or so-and-so's tobacco. Around here, there are various "tobaccos" and "smokes" made from native, regional plants and each has a name and use. Individual plants are "tobaccos" and blends are "smokes", though sometimes a single plant is a "smoke". You can find a lot of them at the flea markets here on the rez. People go out and pick it, bag it up, and sell it. There's a wild tobacco here, Nicotiana Attenuata, that goes by different names. Some say it's Mountain Smoke but others say, no it's not, something else is. Depends who you talk to. But the Nicotiana Attenuata is a wild tobacco that grows here and people use. You can get seeds for these tobaccos from Native Seeds/SEARCH. There's also a book called "Smoke Plants" that tells a bit but take some of it with a grain of salt.
