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Wild Rose, Columbia River Gorge.
The Nootka Rose. Photographed near Woodward Creek, Washington.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Wild Rose ...
Captain Lewis writes about the wild roses in his journal at a camp in Idaho while on the return journey, although both he and Captain Clark mention the wild rose throughout their journey.
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there are two speceis of the wild rose both quinqui petallous and of a damask red but the one is as large as the common red rose of our gardens. I observed the apples of this speceis last fall to be more than triple the size of those of the ordinary wild rose; the stem of this rose is the same with the other tho' the leaf is somewhat larger. ..."
[Lewis, June 10, 1806]
Historians have identified these two roses as the Nootka Rose (Rosa nutkana) and Wood's Rose ("Rosa woodsii, or the Western Wild Rose). Both were undescribed species at the time of the Lewis and Clark journey (Moulton, Vol.8). The "Wild Rose" is a plentiful throughout the woodlands of Washington and Oregon. Beautiful shrubs of the rose can be found next to Woodward Creek, Washington.
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Wild Rose, Columbia River Gorge.
The Nootka Rose. Photographed near Woodward Creek, Washington.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Wild Rose.
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, River "S" Unit.
Image taken, May 19, 2007.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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