Bitterroot is the State Flower of Montana.   It is a food source for butterflies, and many other insects and birds. Pilchuck Learning Center’s sponsored Western Washington State University SAM Project extinction possibility is slight; abundant, native to Cascadia and the Rocky Mountain Floristic Region.

It also served as an “ethnobotanical” for the Native Indigenous.  PLC courses limit their presentations of Montana’s Indigenous to the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kalispel, Kootenai, Salish, Shoshone, Sioux Peoples because of the plants and animals that are part of the Rocky Mountain Floristic Region.  Other terms for “plants and animals” living in a particular region or environmental situation are:

exotics (non-natives) & introduced
flora & fauna
living vs. non-living

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