First reported outside Indian country by Lewis and Clark, yampah is a small wild carrot. Usually eaten raw as opposed to being preserved, It could also be mixed with ‘wild rhubarb” to make a kind of pudding. A favorite of bears, especially grizzly bears, it is common throughout the Greater Yellowstone Region.
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