BOTANY 099 SERIES
These caches will take you to the places where specific trees,
shrubs, vines or plants can be identified. The individual cache
might be in or right next to the described plant, or only close
enough for the plant to be seen from the cache site. Pictures of
the plant will also be included when possible.
Bitterbrush or Antelope Brush
This shrub is spreading with many branches and is 2 to 6 feet
tall. It is usually found in a place with dry sandy soil. It has
yellow flowers that bloom in the Spring but they soon wither and
fall off. The leaves have a three lobed tip hense, the
tridentata in the scientific name.
Meriwether Lewis told Frederick Pursh, after whom the
bush is named, that this bush grows on both sides of the
Continental Divide.
Its scientific name is Purshia tridentata, but is
usually called either Antelope Bush or Bitterbrush. Note the
attached pictures
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