Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower

Elizabeth Adelman's 'Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower' is the two-hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding again the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, gather notable specimens along the way, and then write the journals, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist