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Artemisia arbuscula (little sagebrush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Artemisia arbuscula is a North American species of sagebrush known by the common names little sagebrush, low sagebrush, or black sagebrush. It is native to the western United States from Washington, Oregon, and California east as far as Colorado and Wyoming. It grows in open, exposed habitat on dry, sterile soils high in rock and clay content. Subspecies \n* Artemisia arbuscula subsp. arbuscula \n* Artemisia arbuscula subsp. longiloba (Osterh.) L.M.Shultz \n* Artemisia arbuscula subsp. thermopola Beetle - Idaho, Utah, Wyoming
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Infraspecies

Artemisia arbuscula arbuscula
Artemisia arbuscula longicaulis
Artemisia arbuscula longiloba (little sagebrush)
Artemisia arbuscula thermopola
Artemisia arbuscula var. thermopola

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Screening - Summer [2]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Bloom Period [2]  Late Summer
Drought Tolerance [2]  High
Fire Tolerance [2]  None
Frost Free Days [2]  90 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Single Stem
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [2]  Slow
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Bare Root, Container, Seed
Root Depth [2]  10 inches (25 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Slow
Seed Vigor [2]  Low
Seeds Per [2]  979998 / lb (2160528 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Oval
Structure [3]  Shrub
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  White
Foliage Color [2]  Gray-Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 2 Low Temperature: -50 F° (-45.6 C°) → -40 F° (-40 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Water Use [2]  Low

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Craters of the Moon National Monument V 690996 Idaho, United States
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument III 8594 Oregon, United States
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve II 2196863 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States

Predators

Eriococcus epacrotrichus (pointed hair eriococcin)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0