Floristry is the general term used to describe the professional floral trade. It encompasses flower care and handling, floral design or flower arranging, merchandising, and display and flower delivery. Wholesale florists sell bulk flowers and related supplies to professionals in the trade.
A plant of the purslane family with showy pinkish-white flowers on short stems. Found throughout the rocky areas of western North America, it is particularly abundant in Montana, of which it is the state flower
showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva Pursh) is a small, low plant with a pink to white flower. It is the state flower of Montana, United States.
an archaeological phase or culture represented at a number of sites in the Columbia Plateau region in eastern Oregon and in southern and eastern Idaho which Swanson (l962) equates with the northern Shoshone.
Bitterroots Aglow
The Bitterroot Mountains seen from the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. The Bitterroots lie on the border between Montana and Idaho. The Bitterroot Valley lies on the east side, a long north-south valley that is quite beautiful.
Lewis and Clark passed through the Bitterroot Valley, and then over the Bitterroot Mountains via Lolo Pass, on their way west. I always think that their hopes for finding a reasonable route over the Rocky Mountains must have been dashed when they first saw the Bitterroot Mountains -- they look like a long steep wall.
I like the names of some of the streams flowing from the mountains into the valley -- names like: Tin Cup Creek, Little Tin Cup Creek, Onehorse Creek, Lost Horse Creek, North Lost Horse Creek, Roaring Lion Creek, Bear Creek, Sawtooth Creek, Canyon Creek, Sweathouse Creek..
Photo from our return drive from Yellowstone a few years ago.
Bitterroot Blooming on Snow Mountain Ranch in Eastern Washington State
Bitterroot (aka Bitter-root) (Lewisia rediviva) blooming on the sagebrush-steppe slopes of Cowiche Mountain, on the Snow Mountain Ranch, land managed by the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, Yakima Valley, Washington State, USA, Bitterroot-13