been observed to establish and grow well from plantings in southern Idaho and eastern 

 Washington; but, after 20 years, it is showing some mortality in Idaho, labile good seeds 

 have been produced from these plantings, no natural reproduction has been seen. 



Use: Stansbury cliffrose is a highly important winter browse plant for cattle, 

 sheep, and deer. Generally, it is not as palatable as bitterbrush; but on some winter 

 ranges, it is more palatable than bitterbrush- -probably because of its more evergreen 

 habit. In southern Arizona, Stansbury cliffrose is not palatable. Accessions from 

 this area have a different two-dimensional chromatogram of phenolic compounds than 

 palatable populations from northern Arizona and central Utah (E. D. McArthur and R. 

 Stevens, 1972. Chromatography information on file at Intermountain Forest and Range 

 Experiment Station, Ephraim, Utah) . 



Fallugia paradoxa (Apache plume) 



Apache plume is a much-branched, often evergreen shrub, 1 to 2 m tall (fig. 25). 

 Leaves are borne in clusters along branchlets. They are pinnately divided into three 

 to seven linear lobes with revolute margins. 



The large, white, showy, solitary, perigynous flowers, 25 to 38 mm broad, are 

 usually borne at the ends of slender, elongated peduncles. The typical flower has five 

 sepals that alternate with five supplementary bractlets giving the appearance of 10 

 sepals, five free-spreading white petals, numerous stamens inserted in three series on 

 the margin of the hypanthium, and numerous pistils. 



The numerous short, hairy achenes, 3 mm or less long, produced by this species are 

 tailed by long, reddish plumose persistent styles 25 to 38 mm long (fig. 26). The 

 styles turn white when the seed matures. Apache plume averages approximately 420,000 

 cleaned seeds per pound (925/g)(U.S. Forest Service 1948). 



Figure 25. — Pistillate flowers 

 of Ayaohe plume showing near 

 mature achenes. Note the 

 bagged branch on the left 

 used in hybridization studies 



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