Plant

White sagebrush or Dark-leaved mugwort

Artemisia ludoviciana
Plant
White sagebrush or Dark-leaved mugwort
Habitat
Rock Fort, The Dalles, OR
Conservation
Secure
First Observed
1806-04-16

Collected at Rock Fort, but widely found on Columbia Plateau, Great Plains. Used ritually and medically by most tribes.

In the NPS atlas of species the expedition described

White sagebrush or Dark-leaved mugwort

Plant · recorded by Meriwether Lewis

Collected at Rock Fort, but widely found on the Columbia Plateau and Great Plains. Used ritually and medically by most tribes.

Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.

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1 research-grade iNaturalist observation between 2024–2024. Most recent: 2024-09-11. Sourced from Terrain360 trail captures, cached locally.

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