Wildlife
Pacific popcorn flower
Plagiobothrys tenellus
Habitat
Rock Fort
Conservation
Apparently secure
While waiting at Rock Fort, Lewis had time to notice several small, inconspicuous species, including this tiny annual.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Pacific popcorn flower
May
28
1806
Clark: May 28, 1806
...; the latter is most common & much
the most agreeable. the flower of this root is not very unlike the
gensang-. this root they Collect as early as the Snow disappea...
May
29
1806
Clark: May 29, 1806
...peduncle at right-angles with
it, each elivateing a Single flower, which has five obtuse Short patent
white petals with Short claws incerted on the upper edge of th...
May
30
1806
Clark: May 30, 1806
... solid celindric and cround with an umble of from 20 to 30
flowers. this Onion is exceedingly crisp and delicately flavoured indeed.
I think more Sweet and less str...
May
30
1806
Lewis: May 30, 1806
...solid celindric and crowned with an
umbal of from 20 to 30 flowers. this onion is exceedingly crisp and
delicately flavoured indeed I think more sweet and less stro...
Jun
1
1806
Lewis: June 1, 1806
...re bent down near their extremities with
the weight of the flowers. the leaf is sissile, scattered thinly, nearly
linear tho somewhat widest in the middle, two inch...
Jun
5
1806
Clark: June 5, 1806
...antin, canser weed, Shoemate, and Several of
the pea blume flowering plants.-. Frazier who had permission to visit the
Twisted Hairs Lodge at the distance of ten or...
Jun
5
1806
Lewis: June 5, 1806
... cansar weed, elder,
shoemate and several of the pea blume flowering plants.-
Jun
11
1806
Clark: June 11, 1806
... to the hight of 2 or 21/2 feet. it supports from 10 to
40 flowers which are each surported by a Seperate footstalk of 1/2 an inch
in length scattered without order...
Jun
11
1806
Lewis: June 11, 1806
... the hight of 2 or 21/2 feet. it supports from 10 to forty
flowers which are each supported by seperate footstalk of 1/2 an inch in
length scattered without order o...
Jun
16
1806
Lewis: June 16, 1806
...day I
observed the Cullumbine the blue bells and the yelow flowering pea in
blume. there is an abundance of a speceis of anjelico in these mountains,
much stonger ...
Jun
16
1806
Clark: June 16, 1806
...ay I
observed the Cullumbine the blue bells and the Yellow flowering pea in
blume. there is an abundance of a Species of Anjelico in the mountains
much Stronger to...
Jun
30
1806
Lewis: June 30, 1806
... which is
sometimes called the lady's slipper or mockerson flower. it is in shape
and appearance like ours only that the corolla is white, marked with small
veigns...
Jul
2
1806
Clark: July 2, 1806
... which is Sometimes called the ladies Slipper or
Mockerson flower. it is in shape and appearance like ours only that the
corolla is white marked with Small veigns o...
Jul
2
1806
Lewis: July 2, 1806
...here, the one with a
very narrow small leaf and a pale red flower, the other nearly as
luxouriant as our red clover with a white flower the leaf and blume of the
l...
Jul
3
1806
Clark: July 3, 1806
...lains covered
with a great variety of Sweet cented plants, flowers & grass. this
evening we Crossed 10 Streams 8 of which were large Creeks which comes
roleing the...
