Lewis and Clark Discovered 175 new species of plant these are five plants they found while on there expedition:
BearBerry, was one plant they found on there expedition. Lewis and Clark named it kinnikinnick witch means mixture. The BearBerry is used for medicine it has been used for that for the past 800 years.
Western Spring beauty was a plant that Lewis and Clark came across in the mountains and was edible. There flowers are orange, yellow or pink.
The BuffaloBerry was another plant species that Lewis and Clark found while on there expedition it grows next to streams in the great plains region of the United States. The BuffaloBerry is also known as the Rabbit Berry.
They also discovered the ChocolateLilly . They ChocolateLilly was used for trade and the bulbs could be eaten it was discovered April 10th 1806 in Oregon.
They discovered a tree called the Crab Apple Tree. The tree has pink flowers in the spring no one rarely ate the "Apples" because they were to small to be eaten but still classified as apples. This tree also grows small berries that are also hardly eaten.