Sweet potato

Plant · mentioned in 3 journal entries

Planning Westward Fort Clatsop Return Post-expedition NPS L&C NHT trail data © National Park Service
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Also discussed in Coues 1893 (4-vol edition):
1 mention via 1 variant: sweet potato (1)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Clark: January 20, 1806
William Clark · Jan 20, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"comparison for flavor of root"
Clark: January 22, 1806
William Clark · Jan 22, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"compared to roasted licorice flavor"
Clark: April 30, 1806
William Clark · Apr 30, 1806 · Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit
"native root resembling it"

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