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Big sagebrush is a coarse, many-branched, pale-grey shrub with yellow flowers and silvery-grey foliage, which is generally 0.5–3 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –10 feet) tall. [3] A deep taproot 1–4 m (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 ft) in length, coupled with laterally spreading roots near the surface, allows sagebrush to gather water from both surface precipitation and the water table several meters beneath.
Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus Artemisia. The best-known sagebrush is the shrub Artemisia tridentata . Sagebrushes are native to the West Coast of North America .
Artemisia (/ ˌ ɑːr t ɪ ˈ m iː z i ə /) [3] is a large, diverse genus of plants belonging to the daisy family, Asteraceae, with almost 500 species.Common names for various species in the genus include mugwort, wormwood, and sagebrush.
Sagebrush steppe with Artemisia tridentata, of the Great Basin region in Owyhee County, Idaho. Sagebrush steppe also known as the sagebrush sea, is a type of shrub-steppe, a plant community characterized by the presence of shrubs, and usually dominated by sagebrush, any of several species in the genus Artemisia. [1]
Artemisia cana, Silver sagebrush, is an aromatic shrub found in grasslands, floodplains and montane forests. [7] Artemisia cana is native to the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the American states of Alaska, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota.
Bird watchers, horseback riders and hikers at W.E. Johnson Park were shocked in early May to discover 10 acres of shrub steppe habitat — sagebrush — destroyed in Richland’s least developed park.
The dunes sagebrush lizard was listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act, per a decision issued May 17 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The species grows in sagebrush and woodland habitat. [3] It grows easily in alkaline and saline soils , and thrives on soils that are rich in calcium . [ 15 ] It rapidly establishes in disturbed habitat, including burns, flooded washes, and rockslides, so it is a valuable shrub for revegetating damaged land such as overgrazed rangeland and ...