PLANTS DECIDUOUS ■ SPRING AND 



SUMMER 



Leaves Alternate and Simple 

 Plants Unarmed Without Catkins 



[Flowers not in scaly bracted, elongated clusters (catkins or aments)] 



1. Plants with sagebrush odor and taste; leaves, flower-head bracts 

 shed in fall, silver-gray-hairy, deeply 3-parted at tips (some entire, 

 linear) ; bracts longer than flower heads; flower-head clusters usu- 

 allv spikelike; low, spreading, shrubs to 2 feet high, not layering or 

 root-sprouting; scablands, e. Oreg., e. Wash.; type locality, plains 

 of Snake River stiff* sagebrush (Artemisia rigida) . 8 



8 See Evergreen Key for big sagebrush, low sagebrush, silver sagebrush, and 

 threetip sagebrush; see Plants Armed Key for bud sagebrush. 



Stiff sagebrush 



F-4S121K 



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