Wildlife

Pacific popcorn flower

Plagiobothrys tenellus
Pacific popcorn flower
Habitat
Rock Fort
Conservation
Apparently secure
First Observed
1806-04-16

While waiting at Rock Fort, Lewis had time to notice several small, inconspicuous species, including this tiny annual.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Pacific popcorn flower

Oct 26 1804
John Ordway: October 26, 1804
...re the Manden nation had raised corn the last Summer, & Sun flowers &. C. of which they eat with corn. Cap* Lewis walked up to the village this evening, found the nat...
Dec 27 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 27, 1804
laying a flower [floor] in the Intrepeters room & finishing the blacksmiths Shop &C.
Dec 29 1804
Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 29, 1804
flower [interpreter's floor] a Great nomber of the natives men women & children visited us the whole day a...
May 27 1805
Missouri River, first view of Rocky Mountains — Patrick Gass: May 27, 1805
...ich in the proper seasons are deco- rated with blossoms and flowers of various colours. The views from the hills are interesting and grand. Wide extended plains with ...
Jun 25 1805
Great Falls Portage — Joseph Whitehouse: June 25, 1805
...s of the hills, Grass but a fiew inches high and but a fiew flowers in the plains. Great quantities of choke cherries, goose berrys, red & yallow berrys & red and pur...
Jun 25 1805
Great Falls Portage — John Ordway: June 25, 1805
... hills, grass but a fiew Inches long or high and but a fiew flowers in the plains. Great quanties of choke cherryes Goose berrys red & yallow berry, & red purple curr...
Aug 8 1805
Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon — Joseph Whitehouse: August 8, 1805
...arie on each Side covred with high grass thissels Small Sun flowers and a nomber of other kinds of flowers &c, at noon R. Fields joined us had been hunting for Shanno...
Aug 8 1805
Jefferson/Beaverhead River near present-day Dillon — John Ordway: August 8, 1805
...ful prarie on each Side covred with high grass thissels Sun flowers Some clover and different kinds of herbs &. C. at noon R. Fields who had been hunting for Shannon ...
Aug 13 1805
Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact — Joseph Whitehouse: August 13, 1805
...the valley not So wide & a little higher dry and Smoth. Sun flowers & grass Some places high & other places Short. Some pine timber back on the high hills. we halted ...
Aug 13 1805
Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact — John Ordway: August 13, 1805
...ow & a little higher. Smooth plains covred with grass & Sun flowers &. C. Saw Some pine timber on the high hills back from the River, we halted and took breakfast at ...
Aug 22 1805
Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — John Ordway: August 22, 1805
...w. we being out of fresh meat and have but a little pork or flower we joined and made a fish drag of willows and caught 520 fine pan fish. 2 kinds of Trout & a kind r...
Aug 22 1805
Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — Patrick Gass: August 22, 1805
...ave gathered a quantity of 9 130 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE sunflower seed, and also of the lambs-quarter, which they pound and mix with service berries, and make of the...
Aug 29 1805
Lemhi Valley, preparing to cross Bitterroots — Patrick Gass: August 29, 1805
... They make much use of the sun- 134 GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE flower and lambs-quarter seed, as before mentioned; which with berries and wild cherries pounded together,...
Mar 26 1806
Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — Patrick Gass: March 26, 1806
... continued our voyage. As we passed along I sawa great many flowers full blown of different colours: and grass and other herbage growing fast: I saw nettles two feet ...
Apr 10 1806
Columbia near The Dalles, trading for horses — John Ordway: April 10, 1806
...ad in tombs about 8 feet Square made of wood plank and tite flowers [floors] made of plank layn in them and the corps are layn out on the flower Roped up in Some kind...

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