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Big Sage Brush
Artemisia tridentata
Characteristics
• Silvery green shrub can be small to up to 15 ft
• Persistent, alternate leaves are sessile and three-lobed
• Small yellow flowers borne on long spikes• Shreddy bark• Fragrant leaves distinguish from
Rabbitbrush and Bitterbrush
Ecology
• Common throughout our basin and Eastern Oregon
• The most abundant shrub in the semi-arid portion of the Western United States
• Most common and widely distributed sagebrush, found all the way to Nebraska
• Important browse of game animals and sheep• Islands to deer mice, kangaroo mice and other
desert mammals and reptiles
Ecology continued
• The Range Plant Handbook states that tall, dense stands of the plant are indicative of fertile soil suitable for small grains and adapted for irrigated farming
• State flower of Nevada
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