bitterbrush

Recorded food plants include bitterbrush, rose, aspen, poplar and willow.

Rodents, songbirds, and upland game birds also use the fruits of bitterbrush.

The area's ground cover is dominated by bitterbrush, sagebrush, gray rabbitbrush, and other high desert plants.

Other common shrubs include bitterbrush, snowberry, and ceanothus.

Sagebrush and antelope bitterbrush are examples.

The western side of the brushy foothills consist mostly of bitterbrush and curl-leaf mahogany.

Understory vegetation varies with elevation; at lower elevations, antelope bitterbrush is important winter browse for deer.

"The bitterbrush?"

At the highest elevations are lodgepole pine, whitebark pine, fields of sagebrush and bitterbrush.

In the Cascades east and north of Mt. Shasta, bitterbrush and tobacco brush are very common.

Purshia glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names desert bitterbrush and Mojave antelope brush.

Antelope bitterbrush and sagebrush are common shrubs in these areas with Idaho fescue and bluebunch wheatgrass as the main ground cover.

Ponderosa Pine/Bitterbrush Woodland (9d)

Higher slopes are covered with mountain big sagebrush, snowberry, serviceberry, and bitterbrush, with other shrubs, grasses, and herbs growing in the openings between shrubs.

Today, it supports cheatgrass, crested wheatgrass, medusahead wildrye, Wyoming and basin big sagebrush, alkali sagebrush, and antelope bitterbrush.

Rain in late September prompts the herd to return to the monument to feed on bitterbrush until snow in November triggers them to migrate back to their winter range.

In the Upper Sonoran Desert pygmy rabbits occur in desert sagebrush associations dominated by big sagebrush and rabbitbrush with bitterbrush and sulphurflower (Eriogonum umbellatum var.

We identified bitterbrush (a winter food for deer, elk and antelope), recognized volcanic landforms and read that the distant Palomino Buttes supported wild horses, descendants of those that escaped many years ago from local ranches.

Although ponderosa pines dominate the biomass of this community, other tree species such as Douglas-fir and Rocky Mountain juniper, shrubs (for example, raspberries, big sagebrush, gooseberries, currants, bitterbrush), and herb layers (such as mountain muhly, sedges, and sagebrushes) can develop.

Purshia (bitterbrush or cliff-rose) is a small genus of 5-8 species of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to western North America, where they grow in dry climates from southeast British Columbia in Canada south throughout the western United States to northern Mexico.