One
of the Walla Walla Indian guides,#35, introduced Lewis to cow parsnip.
On May 2, 1806, Lewis wrote:
"the three young men of the Wollahwollah nation continued with
us. in the course of the day I observed them eat the inner part of
the young and succulent stem of a large coarse plant with a ternate
leaf, the leafets of which are three loabed and covered with a woolly
pubersence. The flower and fructification resembles that of the parsnip....
I tasted of this plant found it agreeable and eat heartily of it...." |
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