Cowiche canyon uplands shrub steppe plant walk - Botany 410

parking for the upland trail

Purshia tridentata is a deciduous shrub growing to a height of 1–5 metres (3.3–16.4 ft). It has slender three- to five-lobed leavesCream-colored, tubular, short-lived flowers are solitary at the ends of short branches. The semi-... Read more

ridgid sagebrush is a native, deciduous shrub. It is low and spreading with a conspicuously woody base. The base is often heaved from the soil by frost action. The trunk is very irregular, spreading above the base in a dense cluster of shor... Read more

coarse, many-branched, pale-grey shrub with discoid erect yellow flowers and silvery-grey foliage, which is generally 0.5–3 m tall. strong pungent fragrance (especially when wet) due to the presence of camphor, terpenoids and other... Read more

this grass is the washington state grass1.5 to 4 feet tall and seed spikes are 3 to 8 inches long. The auricles (ear-shaped appendages where leaf blade and sheath meet) are pointed and semi- clasping to nearly lacking. Leaves are lax, flat ... Read more

perrenial shrub with alternately arranged simple leaves. leaves are linnear ang glabbrous/waxy often spiraling inward. Flowers are a spike of yellow flowers

annual or winter annual, softly downy to short-hairy throughout, and generally 10- 60cm (4- 24 in) tall. plant is typically rusty-red to purple at maturity. a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Afric... Read more