MISSOULA, Mont. — Fort Missoula Regional Park is sporting 900 new Bitterroot flowers thanks to a handful of indigenous students. About 50 students from the Nkwsum Salish School in Arlee and Two Eagle ...

The beautiful pink flowers of the Bitterroot have been Montana's official state flower since 1895 — one of the oldest symbols of the Treasure State.

For centuries before white settlers came to western Montana, the root of the bitterroot flower was an important food source for the Salish and other Native American tribes in the area.

The Stevensville man is pictured on the cover of the Bitterroot Star this week, lying on the ground planting the state flower in a garden at St. Mary's Mission. His aim, he told the Star's Michael ...

Seemingly delicate, most certainly beautiful, bitterroot flowers are in fact one of our state’s most determined survivors. Dig it up, dry it whole, store it for months, carry it across the country ...

WHITEHALL — Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park invites you to join us Saturday, June 9 for a hike to see the beautiful bitterroot and other early summer wildflowers. This is the perfect flower walk ...

Members of Lewis and Clark's expedition first identified the bitterroot, or Lewisia rediviva, as the group across the West. Native American tribes throughout the Rocky Mountain West had consumed the ...

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