Major Rangeland Plants of Idaho: Woody Plants

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Major Rangeland Plants of Idaho Woody Plants
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Antelope Bitterbrush

• Perennial
• Native
• Fair for Grazers
• Good for Browsers

Bright yellow flowers
Wedge-shaped leaf shape with 3 tips
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Big Sagebrush

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Good for Browsers

Narrow wedge-shaped leaves with 3 tips
Flowers have no petals same color as leaves
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Chokecherry

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Poor for Browsers

Serrate leaf margins
Alternate leaf arrangement
Poisonous This plant can produce a cyanide
compound
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Coyote Willow

• Perennial
• Native
• Fair for Grazers
• Good for Browsers

Alternate leaf arrangement on stem
Linear leaf shape
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Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Fair for Browsers

Leaves rolled under/enrolled hence the name
curl-leaf
White/gray stems
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Juniper

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Fair for Browsers

Leaves have overlapping scales
Evergreen (non-deciduous)
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Quaking Aspen

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Fair for Browsers

Obovate leaf shape
Flattened petiole makes leaf quake in the wind
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Rabbitbrush

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Poor for Browsers
• two types Gray Rabbitbrush, and Green
  Rabbitbrush

Terminal seedheads flowers at top of stalk
Linear leaves
gray rabbitbrush green
rabbitbrush
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Redosier Dogwood

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Fair for Browsers

Red stems
Opposite leaves
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Serviceberry

• Perennial
• Native
• Fair for Grazers
• Good for Browsers

Leaves white on bottom
serrated margins top entire bottom
Leaves green on top
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Shadscale Saltbrush

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Good for Browsers

Ovate or obovate leaves circular like a rounded
scale
Alternate leaves
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Snowberry

• Perennial
• Native
• Poor for Grazers
• Poor for Browsers

Oval leaves
Opposite on stem
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Winterfat

• Perennial
• Native
• Good for Grazers
• Good for Browsers

Hairy leaf surface
Enrolled leaf margin