An Uneventful Day
by Yellowstone Public Radio[1]Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © … Continue reading
White Sage
Artemisia ludoviciana
23 June 2010 by Matt Levin. Permission via Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Beautiful Plain
Butifull & extensive plain, Cover’d with Grass resembling Timothy except the Seed which resembles Flax Seed, this plain also abounds in Grapes of defferent Kinds Some nearly ripe.
—William Clark
Lost Specimen No. 30
No. 30. was taken at the bald praries and is common to both low and high praries it usually grows in a single stem and appears to be an annual groath the leaves are white and like the stem appear to be covered with a white down— this is common to all the praries above the Kancez river; from it’s resemblence in taste smell &c to the common Sage I have called it the wild Sage.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Moulton identifies this lost specimen, received by John Vaughn in 1805 (see The Donation Book), as Artemisia ludoviciana, White Sage.[2]The date comes from Vaughn’s Donation Book. Two specimens that Lewis collected on other dates survive. Gary E. Moulton, ed. Journals, “Fort Mandan Miscellany”, vol 3:458–59, 464, … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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| ↑2 | The date comes from Vaughn’s Donation Book. Two specimens that Lewis collected on other dates survive. Gary E. Moulton, ed. Journals, “Fort Mandan Miscellany”, vol 3:458–59, 464, 467. |
