200 HANDBOOK 148, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Low sagebrush 



F-481870 



I 194 



Dwarf, spreading shrubs to 16 inches high; 

 leaves of evergreen-leafy shoots usually broadly 

 wedge- or fan-shaped and not more than V2 

 inch long; leafy bracts of flowering shoots 

 sometimes narrowly and deeply 3-lobed at tips ; 

 flower heads comparatively large (small in se. 

 Oreg. form with reddish flowering shoots), 

 usually in spikelike clusters; flowering shoots 

 often becoming sharp- or weakly spine-tipped 

 after "seeds" fall; type locality, arid plains of 

 Snake River; often on scablands; Columbia 

 plateau, slopes of Cascades, Chelan, Yakima, 

 and Kittitas Cos., Wash., and s. and e. Oreg. 

 low sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula) . 



