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Asteraceae
Big Sagebrush
Artemisia tridentata
Endurance and the wild West.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Artemisia
- Native to
- Western North America
- Bloom season
- Late Summer, Fall
- Type
- shrub
- Height
- 3-10 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun
- Soil
- dry, alkaline, well-drained
- Water
- low
- Hardiness
- 4-9
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Big sagebrush is the most widespread shrub in North America, covering an estimated 250 million acres of western landscape.
- The distinctive silvery aroma of sagebrush after rain is iconic to the American West and is caused by volatile terpenes.
- Greater sage-grouse are entirely dependent on sagebrush for food and shelter, and their populations mirror its health.
- Some individual sagebrush plants can live over 150 years in undisturbed habitats.
- Native Americans burned sagebrush as a smudge for purification ceremonies, a practice still widely observed today.
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wild spirit