KEY TO IMPORTANT WOODY PLANTS 



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bracted flower heads in loose- or narrow- 

 branched end clusters during July, Aug.; leaves 

 densely silvery-hairy, linear or reversely lance- 

 shaped, entire, pointed at tip, rarely with 1 or 2 

 irregular teeth or lobes, to 2 1 , inches long; scaly 

 winter buds lacking; rounded shrubs 2-3 (or 5) 

 feet high, often root-sprouting or layering after 

 top injury or fire; locally in big sagebrush areas, 

 central and s. Oreg., not in Wash. 



silver sagebrush (Artemisia cana). Va 



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Annual, drying-persistent 

 flower-head shoots 



Perennial, evergreen-leafy 



Silver sagebrush shoo,s 



(winter condition) f-481883 



45 See George H. Ward. Artemisia, Section Seriphidium, in North America. 

 A Cytotaxonomic Study. Dudley Herb. Contrib. 4 (6): 155-205. Dec. 30, 1953. 



