Object Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
PH-LC 193 |
Object Name |
Specimen |
Title |
Ribes sanguineum |
Other Name |
Red Currant |
Collector |
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark |
Date |
1806 |
Description |
The type was collected along the Columbia River on 27 Mar 1806 (Moulton, 1991: 45, 47). That day the expedition stopped near Rainier and near Globe, both in Columbia Co., Oregon. The specimens could have come from either location (Moulton, 1991: 19-22). (The Lewis & Clark Herbarium Digital Imagery Study Set, ANSP, 2002) On deposit at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
Label |
Starting in 1803, Merriwether Lewis (APS 1803) and William Clark embarked on a 3 year expedition along the Missouri and Columbia rivers to the Pacific Coast. They collected hundreds of plant specimens to carry back to the East Coast. They pressed these plants, attached them to sheets of paper and wrapped them in oilskin to survive the long journey intact. At the start of their return journey on March 27th 1806, Lewis and Clark collected this specimen of Ribes sanguineum, or Red Flowering Currant, while traveling along the Columbia River. Red Flowering Currants can be found along the Pacific Coast west of the Cascade Mountains, and in some parts of northern Idaho. Its berries were often eaten raw or dried for use in cooking. |
Credit line |
American Philosophical Society. Gift of Thomas Jefferson, 1805 - 1806. |
Search Terms |
19th century botany Clark herbarium Lewis nineteenth century plant specimen |
Collection |
The Lewis & Clark Herbarium |