Artemisia cana
silver sagebrush
Family AsteraceaeAlso called hoary sagebrush, silver wormwood, sticky sagebrush
About
Silver sagebrush is an aromatic shrub of grasslands, floodplains and montane forests across western and central North America.
Field notes
Distribution & habitat
Native to British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and to many western and central US states from Alaska and Oregon to the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota, on rocky open grassland and floodplains.
Ecology
Meriwether Lewis noted that pronghorn fed on aromatic plants of this kind.
History & etymology
The type specimen was collected by Meriwether Lewis on 1 October 1804 in present-day South Dakota during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Canada, United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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