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While traveling along the trail, Lewis and Clark saw new and interesting plants that they had never seen before.
In 1804 they saw plants like the Osage Orange, Pomme Blanche: Prairie Apple, Lance-Leaved Psoralfa, Large-Flowered Clammy-Weed, Pink Cleome, Rabbit Brush, Wood's Rose, Cut-Leaved Sideranthus, Missouri Milk Vetch, Common Matchweed: Broom wood, Aromatic Aster, Bushy Atriplex, Hoary Sagebrush, Squaw Bush, Long-Leaved Mugwort, Fetid Rayless Goldenrod, and Indian Tobacco.
In 1805 they saw plants like the Western White Pine, Brittle Opuntia, Yellow-Flowering Pea, White Squaw Currant, Geyer's Onion, Golden Currant, Western Paper Birch, Lewis's Monkey Flower, Lyall's Angelics, Sitka Mountain Ash, Whitebark Pine, Pacific Yew, Peach-Leaved Willow, Oregon Ash, and California Rhododendron.
In 1806 they saw plants like the Grand Fir, Blue Huckleberry, Oregon White Oak, Slender Toothwort, Balsam Root, Thimbleberry, Uropappus, Slender Popcorn Flower, Large-Headed Clover, Cous, Sugar Bowls, Biscuit Root; Lewis's Lomatium, Lewis's Syringa, Yellow Bell, Mariposa Lily, Cascara Sagrada, Ragged Robin; Beautiful Clarikia, Narrow-Leaved Skullcap, Yellow Fawn Lily, Large Mountain Brome Grass, Virgate Phacelia, Black Cottonwood, Nootka Rose, Hair-Grass, and Needle and Thread Grass.
To see pictures of these plants, click the link below: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/LFSC/life_sciences/.plant_biology/L&C/L&Cpublic2.html
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