Talk:Artemisia tridentata

Boreal?
Is it true that "sagebrush is the dominant plant life in the...Boreal life zone"? Seems totally wrong to me, but my experience of boreal forests is restricted to the Northeast, the northern Rockies, and the Cascades. 65.213.77.129 (talk) 19:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I believe it's true, but I don't have a reference. Mountains of the Great Basin are too dry for many of the boreal conifers except in sheltered or well-watered sites, and sagebrush fills the otherwise unoccupied terrain.--Curtis Clark (talk) 15:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, down south we have a more temperate region and larger trees grow. Tridenta is more prone to the dryer regions of the temperate climate, but red cedars do grow if they are near to a water source. There are only about three or four places in the State of Washington where the red cedar (juniper) grow near to sage brush (tridenta). I have seen a tridenta that grows just some twenty miles south of Spokane, otherwise they are quite common from Ritzville to Ellensburg, a more desert region. 74.82.228.73 (talk) 01:19, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

"Purple sagebrush" picture
The picture captioned "Purple sagebrush in the median of South Second Street in downtown Raton, New Mexico" is clearly a picture of a member of the genus Perovskia, most likely P. atriplicifolia. Perovskia or Russian sage is in the sage (and mint) family Lamiaceae, not the Asteraceae with the Aremisia spp. Perhaps there needs to be a redirect from purple sagebrush to Perovskia on the sagebrush disambiguation page in addition to the correction of the misplaced picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.242.237.103 (talk) 20:52, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


 * There is a “black sage” tridenta in Russia, but the common, although black can be found, is the white sage of Eastern Washington in the USA. 74.82.228.73 (talk) 01:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)