well after that thorough description I'll keep my eye out for it. I've
certainly seen it growing in mass quantity in places like Rooster Rock Park
on the Columbia just east of Portland, so I'm quite familiar with the plant
itself. I'm pretty familiar with the wild areas along the spokane river and
hangman creek, and haven't seen it there - but that doesn't mean that it
isn't poking its head aboveground somewhere. In any case, it's not the
scourge here that it apparently is west of the Cascades.