Collection Season ²

August-September

Summary ³

Prairie sage is a mound-forming, spreading sub-shrub with flowering stalks reaching 4-16 inches tall. Covering the plant is an abundance of silvery hairs giving it a silky grey-green appearance. Flower clusters are a quarter inch in diameter and made up of numerous tiny disk flowers that bloom from July to August

Uses ²

Fringed sage is a pioneer shrub resistant to browsing and animal impact by certain livestock and wildlife species and has an application for stabilizing disturbed sites. It is also drought tolerant. It is an important food source for big and small game.

Probable Locations ²

Fontes e Créditos

1. (c) Chuck Sexton, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chuck Sexton
2. (c) skramer16, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)
3. Adaptado por skramer16 de uma obra de (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_frigida

Mais informações

• BioDiversity4All taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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