Artemisia tridentata big sagebrush
ASTER Family
Leaves: wedge-shaped, most with 3 toothed-tip. Dense gray hair on both sides. Most leaves persist through winter.
Flowers: In fall. Small, yellow, born in composite heads of 3-5 disk flowers. Very small.
Evergreen aromatic shrub. Grayish shredding bark on older branches. Does not re-sprout after wildfire but regenerates from seed
Habitat: widespread and common in deep soiled (>12 in.) shrub-steppe up to 7 feet tall
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- Prior fall’s flowering stalks.
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- Big sagebrush in full bloom
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- Flowers: small, yellow, born in composite heads of 3-5 disk flowers. Very small.
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- Evergreen aromatic shrub. Grayish shredding bark on older branches.
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- Yellow in photo are long thin leaves, that dry up & die in summer. Smaller hairy, thick leaves remain year-round
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- Three-tip sagebrush at left. big sagebrush at right
