Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus)

we are in a Cove & the Mountains verry high & Pine Spruce verry high & thick

I saw a Small red Berry which grows on a Stem of about 6 or 8 Inches from the Ground, the taste insipid.
William Clark

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Devil's Club: Large leaves, thorny stalk and stems, and a few small, red berries

Photo date: July 2005 by Stan Shebs. Permission via the GNU Free Documentation License.

Columbia River at the Dismal Nitch

The rain continuing and weather proved So Cloudy that I could not See any distance
-William Clark-

Photo date: November 11, 2008

Waves pounding a rocky shore on a gray day