Dan noticed a new flower blooming in the rocks down the hill from our house.
This plant was first collected on the Lewis & Clark expedition, and they tried to eat it. I think they tried to eat everything they came across, actually. They said it was too bitter, and called it Bitterroot. When the dried specimen was returned to the east coast, it looked like it still had life, and they planted it. Sure enough, it grew. And so the scientific name is Lewisia Rediviva, and rediviva means “restored to life.”
![death-camas](http://mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/death-camas.jpg)
Meadow Death Camas, a highly poisonous plant whose roots were historically mashed and used to coat the tips of arrows.
Two that I’ve taken pictures of before but that I always love to see each spring are the Larkspur and wild hyacinth.