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Metadata
Catalog Number |
PH-LC 108 |
Object Name |
Specimen |
Title |
Stokesiella oregana |
Other Name |
Oregon Moss |
Collector |
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark |
Date |
1806 |
Description |
Crum and Anderson (1981) refer to the species as Stokesiella praelonga (Hedw.) Robins. Robinson (1967) and Ireland et al. (1980) recognized this as S. oregana, but Anderson et al. (1990) retained this species in its original genus described by Jaeger: Eurhynchium oreganum (Sull.) Jaeg. (Ber. S. Gall. Naturw. Ges. 1876-77: 361. 1878. Ad.2: 247). Many workers follow the more conservative taxonomy of Crum et al. (1990). This specimen was collected at Fort Clatsop, Clatsop Co., Oregon, on 20 Jan 1806. (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. While the expedition crew were camped for the winter at Fort Clatsop in Oregon, they collected this specimen of Stokesiella oregana, commonly known as Oregon beaked moss, on January 20th, 1806. This species of moss is native to and quite common along the cool, humid west coast from British Columbia to southern California. It does not have documented uses among indigenous communities in the coastal Oregon region where this sample was collected. |
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 |