Wildlife
Pacific popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys tenellus
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...