NR220 Forestry lower elevation

Artemisa tridenta

-Leaves simple, tridentate (3 toothed/lobed) and fuzzy

-Strong “sage” odor, silvery, hairy and wedged shaped leaves

Purshia tridentata

Tridentate leaf tips

Crushed leaves have pungent odor ("dirty socks“)

Cercocarpus montanus

-Simple, alternate leaves, serrate on upper half

-Base of leaf wedge-shaped with no serrations

-Plumose tailed achene type fruit

-skinny bart simpson

Amelanchier alnifolia

-Leaves simple, alternate

-Upper half with serrations

-Base of leaf rounded with no serrations

-Sweet blue berries

-bart simpson

Rhus trilobata

Trifoliate leaves, each leaflet 3+ lobed

-Low shrub Strong odor when crushed

-Flowers yellow, fruit red Orange-reddish fall color

Chrysothamnus sp.

-Leaves simple, alternate, narrowly linear (“grass-like”) -Woody, gray brown, bark; often shreddy

-Racemes of small yellow flowers