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Artemisia spinescens
Budsage is a squat, thorny, deciduous desert shrub of the western United States, usually about 30 to 50 cm tall, valued in the wild as early-season forage. It is grown mainly in dry, salty or gravelly soils, and it thrives with little water.
Artemisia spinescens is a North American species of sagebrush in the sunflower family, known by the common name budsage.
Many sources treat the species separately from genus Artemisia and named Picrothamnus desertorum. This separation has not, however, been supported by genetic analysis.
Artemisia spinescens is native to the western United States from southern and eastern California and the Great Basin, north to Idaho and Montana, and east to western Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.
This plant is considered good forage for wild and domestic grazing animals early in the season when the foliage is new and soft. Later in the season when the plant produces large quantities of bitter volatile oils it becomes unpalatable.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artemisia spinescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
