Lewis’s blue flax

Jul 13 1804

Clark: July 13, 1804

...o the left. Containg a grass resmlg Timothy, with Seed like flax, (2) passed a Island in a bend to the S. S. at 12 ms. I walked on Shore S. S. lands, low & overfl...

Aug 17 1804

Clark: August 17, 1804

... Seed of which branches from the main Stalk & is more like flax Seed than that of a Timothey at 6 oClock this evening Labieche one of the Party Sent to the Ottoes...

Jul 18 1805

Lewis: July 18, 1805

...John Ordway. I have observed for several days a species of flax growing in the river bottoms the leaf stem and pericarp of which resembles the common flax cultiva...

Jul 23 1805

Lewis: July 23, 1805

...strong tough and disagreeable. found some seed of the wild flax ripe which I preserved; this plant grows in great abundance in these bottoms. I halted rearther e...

Jul 31 1805

Lewis: July 31, 1805

...s are covered with fine grass, tanzy, thistles, onions and flax. the bottom land fertile and of a black rich loam. the uplands poor sterile and of a light yellow...

Aug 8 1805

Lewis: August 8, 1805

...ntity of the buffaloe clover in the bottoms. the sunflower, flax, green swoard, thistle and several species of the rye grass some of which rise to the hight of 3 ...