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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.
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 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 . Sagebrush is native to the West Coast of North America .
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, sticky sagebrush, silver wormwood, hoary sagebrush, dwarf sagebrush; Artemisia michauxiana – Michaux's wormwood, lemon sagewort; Artemisia nova – black sagebrush; Artemisia pygmaea – pygmy sagebrush; Artemisia spinescens – budsage, bud sagebrush; Artemisia tridentata – big sagebrush, Great Basin ...
Artemisia kruhsiana, also known as Alaskan sagebrush, Alaskan wormwood, and Siberian wormwood, is a species of plant in the sunflower family. [1] It is found in Asia from eastern Siberia to the northern Russian Far East , and in North America from Alaska , British Columbia , Yukon , and the Northwest Territories .
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Artemisia spinescens is a North American species of sagebrush in the sunflower family, known by the common name budsage. [4] Many sources treat the species separately from genus Artemisia and named Picrothamnus desertorum. [5] [2] [4] This separation has not, however, been supported by genetic analysis. [6]