Wildlife

Cous

Lomatium cous
Habitat
Mouth of Walla Walla River
Conservation
Apparently secure

Cous roots gathered in early spring, pounded into cakes, then sun-dried were diet staple of tribes on Columbia Plateau.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Cous

Aug 25 1804
Clark: August 25, 1804
... this blumb is about double the Size of the Common and Deliscously flavouredThose plains are leavel without much water and no timber all the timber on the Stone R...
Apr 19 1805
Lewis: April 19, 1805
... rises higher then 3 feet.the wind detained us through the couse of this day, tho we were fortunate in having placed ourselves in a safe harbour. the party killed...
Apr 26 1805
Lewis: April 26, 1805
...pen plains. he saw several of the bighorned anamals in the couse of his walk; but they were so shy that he could not get a shoot at them; he found a large horn o...
Jun 12 1805
Lewis: June 12, 1805
...nce of one or two miles; after gaining the leavel plain my couse was a litte to the West of S. W.having traveled about 12 miles by 9 in the morning, the sun becam...
Jun 23 1805
Clark: June 23, 1805
...eration and every halt, those not employed in reparing the Couse; are asleep in a moment, maney limping from the Soreness of their feet Some become fant for a fi...
Jun 27 1805
Lewis: June 27, 1805
...amp. Capt. Clark completed a draught of the river with the couses and distances from the entrance of the Missouri to Ft. Mandan, which we intend depositing here ...
Jul 6 1805
Lewis: July 6, 1805
Saturday July 6th 1805 In the couse of last night had several showers of hail and rain attended with thunder and lightning. about day...
Jul 17 1805
Lewis: July 17, 1805
...n cops either in the oppen or timbered lands near the watercouses. the leaf is petiolate of a pale green and resembles in it's form that of the red currant common...
Jul 18 1805
Lewis: July 18, 1805
...as far up those streams as he could discover them in their couse towards the mountains. he also saw many bighorn anamals on the clifts of the mountains. not far b...
Oct 10 1805
Clark: October 10, 1805
...oudy and we were disapointed The Indians Came down all the Couses of this river on each Side on horses to view us as we were desending,The man whome we saw at the...
Oct 22 1805
Clark: October 22, 1805
... and they go to war to their first villages in 12 days, the Couse they pointed is S. E. or to the S of S. E. we are visited by great numbers of Indians to Day to ...
Feb 16 1806
Lewis: February 16, 1806
...here there are copses of brush and underwood near the watercouses. they are by no means as plenty on this side of the rocky mountains as on the other, nor do I be...
Feb 20 1806
Lewis: February 20, 1806
...to be the effect of a series of uninterupted friendly intercouse, but the well known treachery of the natives by no means entitle them to such confidence, and we ...
Mar 11 1806
Clark: March 11, 1806
...lso procured a fiew and brought with him. The Deer of this Coust differ from the Common Deer, fallow Deer or Mule Deer as has beformentiond. The Mule Deer we have...
May 9 1806
Lewis: May 9, 1806
...tall and open growth of the longleafed pine. near the watercouses the hills are steep and lofty tho are covered with a good soil not remarkably stony and possess ...

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