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Artemisia tridentata

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Artemisia tridentata, commonly called big sagebrush,Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, Great Basin sagebrush or (locally) simply sagebrush, is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae, which grows in arid and semi-arid conditions, throughout a range of cold desert, steppe, and mountain habitats in the Intermountain West of North America. [1]

79 relations: Abies concolor, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Artemisia (genus), Artemisia californica, Asteraceae, Athlete's foot, Axillary lymph nodes, Bacteria, Baja California, British Columbia, Bromus tectorum, Cahuilla, Camphor, Centrocercus, Climate change, Colorado, Colville people, Desert, Dominance (ecology), Ephedra (plant), Essential oil, Eucalyptol, Evergreen, Floral emblem, Flower, Gray vireo, Grazing, Great Basin, Great Basin Desert, Great Plains, Habitat, Headache, Herb, Herbalism, Herbivore, Human digestive system, Intermountain West, Invasive species, Leaf, List of medicinal plants of the American West, Liver, Livestock, Methacrolein, Mountain, Mule deer, Navajo, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, ..., North America, Pinene, Poaceae, Pronghorn, Pygmy rabbit, Rabbitbrush, Root, Rumen, Ruminant, Sagebrush, Sagebrush steppe, San Juan County, New Mexico, Sesquiterpene, Shrub, Smudging, Steppe, Subspecies, Syilx, Symbiosis, Tannin, Taproot, Terpenoid, Terpinene, The Dakotas, Thomas Nuttall, Toxicity, Warner Mountains, Wildfire, Zuni. Expand index (29 more) »

Abies concolor

Abies concolor, the white fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae.

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Agribusiness

Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Artemisia (genus)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 and 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae.

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Artemisia californica

Artemisia californica, also known as California sagebrush, is a species of western North American shrubs in the sunflower family.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae or Compositae (commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite,Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, p. 275 or sunflower family) is a very large and widespread family of flowering plants (Angiospermae).

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Athlete's foot

Athlete's foot, known medically as tinea pedis, is a common skin infection of the feet caused by fungus.

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Axillary lymph nodes

The axillary lymph nodes or armpit lymph nodes (20 to 49 in number) drain lymph vessels from the lateral quadrants of the breast, the superficial lymph vessels from thin walls of the chest and the abdomen above the level of the navel, and the vessels from the upper limb.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Baja California

Baja CaliforniaSometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte (North Lower California) to distinguish it from both the Baja California Peninsula, of which it forms the northern half, and Baja California Sur, the adjacent state that covers the southern half of the peninsula.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Bromus tectorum

Bromus tectorum, known as drooping brome or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas.

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Cahuilla

The Cahuilla, also known as ʔívil̃uqaletem or Ivilyuqaletem, are a Native American people of the inland areas of southern California.

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Camphor

Camphor is a waxy, flammable, white or transparent solid with a strong aroma.

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Centrocercus

The sage-grouse are the two species in the bird genus Centrocercus, C. minimus and Centrocercus urophasianus.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colville people

The Colville people are a Native American people of the Pacific Northwest.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Dominance (ecology)

Ecological dominance is the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community, or makes up more of the biomass.

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Ephedra (plant)

Ephedra is a genus of gymnosperm shrubs, the only genus in its family, Ephedraceae, and order, Ephedrales.

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Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (defined as "the tendency of a substance to vaporize") aroma compounds from plants.

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Eucalyptol

Eucalyptol is a natural organic compound that is a colorless liquid.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Floral emblem

In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Gray vireo

The gray vireo (Vireo vicinior) is a small North American passerine bird.

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Grazing

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

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Great Basin

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

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Great Basin Desert

The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

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Headache

Headache is the symptom of pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck.

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Herb

In general use, herbs are plants with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, in medicine, or as fragrances.

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Herbalism

Herbalism (also herbal medicine or phytotherapy) is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.

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Human digestive system

The human digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder).

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Intermountain West

The Intermountain West, or Intermountain Region, is a geographic and geological region of the Western United States.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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List of medicinal plants of the American West

Many plants that grow in the American West have use in traditional and herbal medicine.

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Liver

The liver, an organ only found in vertebrates, detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins, and produces biochemicals necessary for digestion.

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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Methacrolein

Methacrolein, or methacrylaldehyde, is an unsaturated aldehyde.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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Mule deer

The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule.

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Navajo

The Navajo (British English: Navaho, Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Pinene

Pinene (C10H16) is a bicyclic monoterpene chemical compound.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Pronghorn

The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.

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Pygmy rabbit

The pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) is a North American rabbit, and is one of only two rabbit species in America to dig its own burrow.

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Rabbitbrush

Rabbitbrush is a common name for shrubs, principally of the western United States, in three related genera of the family Asteraceae.

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Root

In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil.

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Rumen

The rumen, also known as a paunch, forms the larger part of the reticulorumen, which is the first chamber in the alimentary canal of ruminant animals.

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Ruminant

Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions.

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Sagebrush

Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceus species of plants in the genus Artemisia.

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Sagebrush steppe

Sagebrush steppe is a type of shrub-steppe, a grassland characterized by the presence of shrubs, and usually dominated by sagebrush, any of several species in the genus Artemisia.

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San Juan County, New Mexico

San Juan County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Sesquiterpene

Sesquiterpenes are a class of terpenes that consist of three isoprene units and often have the molecular formula C15H24.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Smudging

Smudging is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas, that involves the burning of sacred herbs, in some cases for spiritual cleansing or blessing.

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Steppe

In physical geography, a steppe (p) is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Syilx

The Okanagan people, also spelled Okanogan, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the U.S.-Canada boundary in Washington state and British Columbia in the Okanagan Country region.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Tannin

Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.

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Taproot

A taproot is a large, central, and dominant root from which other roots sprout laterally.

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Terpenoid

The terpenoids, sometimes called isoprenoids, are a large and diverse class of naturally occurring organic chemicals derived from terpenes.

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Terpinene

The terpinenes are a group of isomeric hydrocarbons that are classified as monoterpenes.

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The Dakotas

The Dakotas is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota.

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Thomas Nuttall

Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

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Warner Mountains

The Warner Mountains are an -long mountain range running north–south through northeastern California and extending into southern Oregon in the United States.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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Zuni

The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_tridentata

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