wild flax

Plant · mentioned in 2 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):
2 mentions via 1 variant: flax (2)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Lewis's Wild Flax (Linum lewisii)
Great Falls of the Missouri — Joseph Whitehouse: June 16, 1805
Joseph Whitehouse · Jun 16, 1805 · Great Falls of the Missouri
"growing all in blossom in bottoms"
Lewis: July 23, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Jul 23, 1805 · Missouri River above Great Falls, Gates of the Mountains
"ripe seed preserved"

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