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Artemisia tridentata
Great Basin Sage Brush
An evergray shrub. 4 feet tall and wide. Native to dry areas of the western US. Needs full sun. It is very drought tolerant, needs good drainage. Its seeds are edible. Chewed leaves said to aid diges...
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Asclepias asperula
Antelope Horns
A weird milkweed from the desert mountains. Antelope horns grows from the Southern California desert mountains across to Arkansas and up into Kansas.
(syn. Acerates a., Asclepias capricornu ssp. occi...
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Asclepias erosa
Desert Milkweed
(A.leucophylla, A.l. var.obtusa, A.erosa var. obtusa,A.obtusata, A.Rothrockii) Milkweeds are amongst the most important insect plants. Butterflies and some beetles use milkweeds as nectar sources and...
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Dalea fremontii
Indigo Bush
Indigo Bush is a four foot tall deciduous shrub with whitish stems and purple pea flowers. It grows in the western deserts in creosote bush scrub and Great Basin sage plant communities. As it lives...
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Elymus cinereus
Basin Wildrye
Basin Wildrye is a 2-4' clump of grass that is native in the Great Basin area. It extends into Calif. along the east sierras. It is one of the most important forage plants of the sage brush community...
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Elymus triticoides
Alkali Rye
(Leymus triticoides) Native in moist bottom lands throughtout much of the west. Looks like a cross between Bermuda grass and Salt grass. Use as you would Red fescue on watered slopes, or to cover the ...
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Ephedra viridis
Green Mormon Tea
Green Mormon Tea is an evergreen shrub, 4 ft., desert areas, Calif. to Utah, looks like leafless shrub. In many desert locations both species (E. californica and Ephedra virides) exist together. Ephed...
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Eriogonum umbellatum chlorothamnus June Lake
Shrub Sulphur Buckwheat
A shrubby mound of sulphur for a high elevation garden. Full sun and mountain scree. ...
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Mentha arvensis
Field Mint
A small little 1' perennial with a small blue flower clusters on a spike of scented green leaves. This one grows at higher elevations along creeks and in meadows. It has managed to make its way around...
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Penstemon procerus
Small penstemon
Small Penstemon is native in the higher elevations of California throughout much of the rest of the US and Southern Canada. Useful in a small moist rock garden. Use with Eriogonium umbellatum, a boul...
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Purshia stansburiana
Cliff Rose
Native to the north edges of the Mojave desert to Colorado, Utah and Arizona. A 4 ft. high evergreen (it can get bigger if happy) with creamy yellow 1" flowers in April - June followed by an intricate...
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Purshia tridentata
Antelope Bitterbrush
Antelope Bitterbrush is a gray small-leaved shrub to six feet. You will generally see it only 4-5 foot tall. Antelope Bitterbrush grows on dry slopes, east Sierra Nevada, Tulare Co. North, 3000-10000f...
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Stipa columbiana
(Syn. Achnatherum nelsonii ssp. dorei)A narrow grayish perennial bunchgrass. Where it gets semi-regular water it has naturalized in the nursery. Native from Northern Calif to Alaska to Tex....
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Stipa comata
Needle and thread grass
Needle and thread is a tufted little perennial grass that is probably the most wide ranging bunch grass of the west....
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