specimene

Updated: January 24, 2026

L-s met with a singular plant in blume of which we preserved a Specimene. it grows on the Steep fertile hill Sides near this place the radix is fibrous, not much branched, annual, woody, white and nearly Smooth. the Stem is Simple branching ascending 21/2 feet high.

William Clark - The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806