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Lewis & Clark as Naturalists
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Locality Name:
On the Blackfoot River above Missoula
Missoula County, Montana

Species Encountered:
icon-4 Oxytropis besseyi (Rydb.) Blank.
Bessey's locoweed
July 3, 1806

While the location is generally given as "Travelers' Rest," Bessey's locoweed was likely collected from one or two locations, along the Clark Fork of ...  more>>
icon-4 Mimulus guttatus DC.
seep monkeyflower
July 4, 1806

An image of the specimen in the Lewis and Clark herbarium. . . .
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icon-4 Philadelphus lewisii Pursh
Lewis' mock orange
July 4, 1806

Collected along Clearwater River (Colter River to Lewis and Clark) between the Potlatch River and Pine Creek.
An image of the specimen in the ...  more>>


Journal Entries:
On the Blackfoot River above Missoula

 
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