Sage Grouse live in sand sagebrush, though they prefer big sagebrush.
Soon her figure was lost among the big sagebrush, the tallest William had ever seen.
"With Beowulf," her answer came, even lower, "over there, under the big sagebrush."
Dense stands of big sagebrush along streams, roads, and fencerows provide dispersal corridors for pygmy rabbits.
The primary food of pygmy rabbits is big sagebrush, which may comprise up to 99% of the food eaten in the winter.
The area is semi-arid with bluebunch wheatgrass, cheatgrass, and big sagebrush as the primary vegetation.
Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush), an infusion of the leaves is used externally for body aches.
There are four major subspecies of big sagebrush:
The terpenoid compounds in big sagebrush are thought to ward off herbivores.
Sage-grouse prefer the other two subspecies to basin big sagebrush.