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The bitterroot was selected as the Montana state flower in 1895. [ 13 ] Three major geographic features – the Bitterroot Mountains (running north–south and forming the divide between Idaho and Montana), the Bitterroot Valley , and the Bitterroot River (which flows south–north, terminating in the Clark Fork river in the city of Missoula ...
The Bitterroot Range is a mountain range and a subrange of the Rocky Mountains that runs along the border of Montana and Idaho in the northwestern United States.The range spans an area of 24,223 square miles (62,740 km 2) and is named after the bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva), a small pink flower that is the state flower of Montana.
Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame, is credited with the first discovery by a European or American of Lewisia, which was known to the local Native Americans as bitterroot. Lewis discovered the specimen in 1806 at Lolo Creek, in the mountain range that became known as the Bitterroot Mountains. [4]
Montana Prompt: "Create a scenic Montana landscape with a bison roaming through a field of bitterroot flowers." Adobe. Nebraska. Nebraska Prompt: ...
Lewisia rediviva, bitterroot; Lewisia triphylla, three-leaf bitterroot; Montia chamissoi, Chamisso's miner's-lettuce; Montia dichotoma, dwarf miner's-lettuce; Montia linearis, linearleaf miner's-lettuce; Montia parvifolia, little-leaf miner's-lettuce; Portulaca oleracea, common purslane; Talinum calycinum, large-flower flameflower
(state flower) Kalmia latifolia: 1907 [9] Michaela Petit's Four-O’Clocks (children's state flower) Mirabilis jalapa: 2015 [10] Delaware: Peach blossom: Prunus persica: 1953 [11] District of Columbia: American Beauty Rose: Rosa: 1925 [4] Florida: Orange blossom (state flower) Citrus sinensis: 1909 [12] Tickseed (state wildflower) Coreopsis spp ...
Lullaby: "Montana Lullaby" [5] Flag: Flag of the State of Montana [6] Seal: Great Seal of the State of Montana [7] Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Montana National guard crest Crest of the Montana National Guard: Bird: Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) [8] Fish: Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi) [9] Flower: Bitterroot ...
Lewisia pygmaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common name alpine lewisia and pygmy bitterroot. It is native to western North America from Alaska and Alberta to California and New Mexico , where it grows in many types of moist, rocky mountain habitat, such as gravel beds and sandy meadows.