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While some uncertainty and misidentifications of native plants are common, I have found that in the Tehachapi area, there is more confusion surrounding one particular shrub than there is about any other plant. This misunderstood flora is the widespread Sagebrush. Now why would such a well-known plant, whose name and presence are so ubiquitous in the drier areas of the rural West, be a source of confusion? Most of the muddle originates with the shrub’s common name and the way people incorrectly shorten it. Sagebrush is in the Artemisia genus — the species in our area is Great Basin Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), which is the indicator or signature plant species of the Great Basin Desert that covers much of Nevada and parts of Eastern California. Great Basin Sagebrush is actually easy to identify with its pale gray or silvery-green wedge-shaped leaves (with three lobes on the end like a trident, hence the specific name) and dark shreddy bark.  The genus...
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