Plant
Small-flowered collinsia; Blue-eyed Mary
Collinsia parviflora
Habitat
Rock Fort
Conservation
Secure
First Observed
1806-04-16
Collected as Lewis waited at Rock Fort while Clark tried to obtain horses across Columbia. Small annual of moist soils.
Recent sightings
Where it’s being seen today
3 research-grade iNaturalist observations between 2019–2024. Most recent: 2024-03-27. Sourced from Terrain360 trail captures, cached locally.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Small-flowered collinsia; Blue-eyed Mary
Jul
22
1804
Lewis: July 22, 1804
July 22nd 1804. A summary discription of the apparatus employed in the
following observations; containing also some remarks ...
Aug
5
1804
Clark: August 5, 1804
...ter
passes thro this Peninsulia; and agreeable to the Customary Changes of the
river I Concld. that in two years the main Current of the river will pass
through....
Aug
18
1804
John Ordway: August 18, 1804
...f war. the usal Serrymony performed (by
Cap* Lewis as custommary in a Settlement, we put a red ceeder
post hughn [hewed] & branded his name date &. C. we named
thos...
Aug
20
1804
John Ordway: August 20, 1804
...war. the usal Serrymony performed (by Capt. Lewis) as custommary in a Settlement, we put a red ceeder post, hughn & branded his name date &.C— we named th...
Oct
25
1804
Clark: October 25, 1804
...fingers off-; on inqureing the Cause, was told
it was Customary for this nation to Show their greaf by Some testimony of
pain, and that it was not uncommon for th...
Apr
20
1805
Lewis: April 20, 1805
...transporting her
corps to the place of deposit. it is customary with the Assinniboins,
Mandans, Minetares &c who scaffold their dead, to sacrefice the
favorite h...
Apr
21
1805
Missouri River near Yellowstone approach — John Ordway: April 21, 1805
...w which had recently been deposited on a scafTold,
the customary method in this region of disposing of the dead.
2 Kinnikinick was the Indian substitute for tobacco...
Aug
18
1805
Lewis: August 18, 1805
...y
exertions and at least indeavour to promote those two primary objects of
human existence, by giving them the aid of that portion of talents which
nature and fo...
Aug
23
1805
Lewis: August 23, 1805
...familes had a large stock and others none. this is not customary among the
nations of Indians with whom I have hitherto been acquainted I asked
Cameahwait the rea...
Aug
24
1805
Lewis: August 24, 1805
... as all the Indians of America, bravery is esteemed
the primary virtue; nor can any one become eminent among them who has not
at some period of his life given pro...
Mar
24
1806
Clark: March 24, 1806
... the dead at a Short
distance below, in the usial and Customary way of the nativs of this Coast
in Canoes raised from the ground as before described. Soon after w...
Mar
24
1806
Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River — John Ordway: March 24, 1806
...it of the dead
at a Short distance below, in the usual customary way of the
natives of this coast in canoes raised from the Ground. Soon
after we landed and made fi...
Jun
10
1806
Clark: June 10, 1806
...t load on a 2d horse, besides
which we have several supernumary horses in case of accident or the want
of provisions, we therefore feel ourselves perfectly equipe...
Jun
10
1806
Lewis: June 10, 1806
...load on a second horse,
beside which we have several supenemary horses in case of accedent or the
want of provision, we therefore feel ourselves perfectly equiped...
Jun
13
1806
Lewis: June 13, 1806
...if fearfull that we would cansel the
bargain which is customary among themselves and deemed only fair. we
directed the meat to be cut thin and exposed to dry in t...