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Bitterbrush, Antelope-bush
(Purshia trident ata)
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Form:
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Extensively branched deciduous shrub, 3-6 feet tall. Gray or brown
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bark and twigs covered with dense woolly hairs.
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Leaves:
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Wedge-shaped with 3-toothed tips, hairy
and silvery-greenish on
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top, grey-woolly below, edges usually rolled under.
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Flowers:
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Bright yellow, numerous, cup-shaped with
5
petals, solitary on
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short leafy branches. Fruits are spindle-shaped seeds, velvety and glandular.
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Habitat:
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Dry sagebrush grasslands and open Ponderosa pine forests. |
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Season:
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Blooms late spring (May-June).
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