sagebrush

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After 46 years, it's finally official - the sagebrush is the official emblem of the state of Nevada.

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  1. noun Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, a shrub of arid regions of western North America, having silver-green leaves and large clusters of small white flower heads.

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  • Meanwhile, I was noticing that the canyon didn't have the junipers, sagebrush, and limber pine you usually find at those elevations. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • There'd been some fairly disturbing minutes when Fiesta had wondered if they had dropped her, while she was unconscious, from the plane by parachute, but she had dismissed that idea upon examining the 'chute, and finding that it had obviously been spread by hand over the sagebrush--and tied there The parachute was there for some purpose. —  076 - The Flaming Falcons
  • The off-roaders trample sparse desert vegetation such as creosote bush and sagebrush, and crush globally imperiled squalid milk-vetch, Tecopa birdbeak and Churchill narrows buckwheat. —  Coyote Crossing
  • After 46 years, it's finally official - the sagebrush is the official emblem of the state of Nevada. —  Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
  • "From our standpoint, contamination out in the sagebrush is not so much of an immediate concern as human health," Wade said.
 

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