Plants

There is a great abundance of a species of bear-grass which grows on every part of these mountains.  Its growth is luxouriant and continues green all winter but the horses will not eat it.  Meriwether Lewis June 15, 1806 – Bitterroot Mountains Beargrass, to start off – is not a grass but a member of the […]

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities.  It is only the dose which makes a thing poison. – Paracelsus This is a small, dull white mushroom that is widely distributed in North America and Great Britain.  It is about 1 – 2 inches tall with a 3/8 -1.5-inch-wide cap.  It has no

….in the same part of the country there is also another growth which resembles the white maple in its appearance, only that it is by no means so large; seldom being more than from 6 to 9 inches in diameter, and from 15 to 20 feet high; they frequently grow in clusters as if from

cold raining night    the geese are yet in large flocks and do not yetappear to have mated.    what I have heretofore termed the broadleafed ash is now in blume.    the fringetree has cast the corollaand it’s leaves have nearly obtained their full size.    the sac a com-mis is in blume..  Meriwether Lewis, April

Mount Rainier contains the most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings.  John Muir, 1889. Western anemone is a perennial herb with a tap-rooted, woody stem and base found in the subalpine and alpine zone of the western US and Canada.  It stands erect