Artemisia Tridentata
Basin Big Sagebrush
Basin Big Sagebrush
Juniperus Osteosperma
Utah Juniper
Utah Juniper
Pinus Monophylla
Single-Leaf Pinyon
Single-Leaf Pinyon
Basin Big Sagebrush is a common native shrub of Elko County. It is slow growing and moderately long-lived.
It grows in a rounded form to a height of 9 feet, with active growth during the spring and summer.
Flowers are green and striking, and bloom in the late summer. Leaves are gray-green, and remain on the plant throughout the year.
It tends to grow in dry valleys and slopes, at elevations from 2600-6200 feet. Great Basin sagebrush grows in arid and semi-arid conditions,
throughout a range of cold desert, steppe, and mountain habitats in the Intermountain West of North America.
Big sagebrush is used as a herbal medicine by Native Americans throughout the Intermountain West of North America, most notably as a smudging herb.
It is also used for preventing infection in wounds, stopping internal bleeding, and treating headaches and colds.
Pronghorns are the only large herbivores who browse on sagebrush extensivelv.
A truly amazing tree: the Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma).
Junipers grow in some of the most inhospitable landscapes imaginable,
thriving in an environment of baking heat, bone-chilling cold, intense sunlight, little water and fierce winds.
Often they appear to grow straight out of solid rock. The juniper, along with the pinyon pine,
forms the most prevalent plant community the pinyon-juniper woodland - between 4,500 and 7,000 feet above sea level.
Juniperus osteosperma (Utah juniper) is a shrub or small tree reaching 10-20ft (rarely to 30ft) tall.
It is native to the southwestern United States. It grows at moderate altitudes of 4,300-8,500 ft, on dry soils, often together with Pinus monophylla.
The juniper can withstand drought conditions that often kill other plants and trees.
Its hidden secret: a massive underground root system which can account for 2/3 of a tree's total mass.
A juniper's tap root can penetrate 25 feet straight down in search of water. It can also send out lateral roots 100 feet or more from the tree!
The roots are especiallv hardy: even when knocked over by wind, junipers often continue to grow. Junipers grow very slowly.
A juniper standing only five feet tall may be 50 years old. Junipers typically live from 350 to 700 years, with some even passing the millennium mark.
Despite their longevity, junipers rarely exceed 30 feet in height or three feet in diameter. Animals find the juniper very inviting.
The berries are edible, though they are not as popular as pinyon pine nuts. However, juniper berries are a staple for jackrabbits,
coyotes and a variety of birds. This is important for the tree as well since it helps to disperse its seeds
Nevada Official State Tree
Pinus monophylla, the single-leaf pinyon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to the United States and northwest Mexico. Pinus monophylla is a small to medium size tree, reaching 33-66 ft tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 32in rarely more. It occurs at moderate altitudes from 3,900 to 7.500 ft, rarelv as low as 3,120 ft and as high as 9,500 ft. It is widespread and often abundant in this region, forming extensive open woodlands, often mixed with junipers in the Pinyon-juniper woodland plant community. Single-leaf Pinyon is the world's only 1-needled pine. They also can produce edible pine nuts after 15 years or greater age. Nevada designated the single-leaf piñon (Pinus monophylla) as the official state tree in 1953 (Nevada adopted a second state tree in 1987; bristlecone pine).
Pinus monophylla, the single-leaf pinyon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to the United States and northwest Mexico. Pinus monophylla is a small to medium size tree, reaching 33-66 ft tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 32in rarely more. It occurs at moderate altitudes from 3,900 to 7.500 ft, rarelv as low as 3,120 ft and as high as 9,500 ft. It is widespread and often abundant in this region, forming extensive open woodlands, often mixed with junipers in the Pinyon-juniper woodland plant community. Single-leaf Pinyon is the world's only 1-needled pine. They also can produce edible pine nuts after 15 years or greater age. Nevada designated the single-leaf piñon (Pinus monophylla) as the official state tree in 1953 (Nevada adopted a second state tree in 1987; bristlecone pine).
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