Bitterroot
Newly budding bitterroots growing at the top of the hills near Whiskey Dick Mountain near the Columbia River in Eastern Washington. A sometime food source of many of the Native Americans who inhabited the Western plains and sagebrush deserts where the bitterroot grows, the first European explorers found the roots too bitter to be palatable, so the first to arrive - the French named this plant the "racine amer" translated literally as bitter root. Not are these some of the most beautiful of all the flowering plants of the summer, these are also the toughest!
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Angiosperms, Caryophyllales, Core eudicots, Eudicots, Kittitas County, Ktanxa, L. rediviva, Lewisia, Lewisia rediviva, Montiaceae, Oregon bitter-root, PNW, Pacific Northwest, Plantae, Portulacaceae, Vantage, Washington, Whiskey Dick Mountain, beautiful, beauty, bitter root, black medicine, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, green, hand-peeled, herb, mo'ôtáa-heséeo'ôtse, nakamtcu, naqam¢u, native, natural, nature, perennial, pink, plant, plants, purslane, racine amère, sagebrush desert, spetlem, spetlum, spring, sp̓eƛ̓m̓, white, wild, wildflower, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Montiaceae (Bitterroot and Miner's Lettuce Family), Pink Wildflowers
