. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. tant browse plants. Desert sage, described below, is fairly representative of their browse value. desert sage (Salvia carnosa) (drawing at right), often called blue sage. Low, aromatic, compact shrub % foot to 2M feet high, and about as broad, with leafy gray or white-hairy branches. Leaves broadly obovate, % to % inch long, Y& to }i inch wide, grayish-green, finely hair}'; margins entire or slightly scalloped. Deep blue flowers in dense clusters, usually arranged in interrupted spikes subtended wi
. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. tant browse plants. Desert sage, described below, is fairly representative of their browse value. desert sage (Salvia carnosa) (drawing at right), often called blue sage. Low, aromatic, compact shrub % foot to 2M feet high, and about as broad, with leafy gray or white-hairy branches. Leaves broadly obovate, % to % inch long, Y& to }i inch wide, grayish-green, finely hair}'; margins entire or slightly scalloped. Deep blue flowers in dense clusters, usually arranged in interrupted spikes subtended with rose or purple colored papery bracts; May to July. Fruit is 4 nutlets that separate in age. Distribution (map on this page). This is the most widely distributed species of the shrubbv sages in the West. The typical form occurs on rockv bluffs along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, northward into Ore- gon, Washington, and Idaho, between elevations of about 3,000 to 5,000 feet. There are also varieties which extend along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada from Lassen County to Kern County; in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties. It extends eastward to Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, northward to Idaho. Economic value. Desert sage is not a high quality browse plant, but all kinds of domestic livestock as well as deer, feed to a limited extent upon the leafage and current twigs. It serves chiefly as a variant or "filler," being most utilized on the winter ranges. Browse rating. Fair for goats; fair to poor for sheep and deer; poor to useless for cattle; and useless for horses. Distribution of desert salvia (Salvia carnosa) and blue witch (Solatium umbelliferum).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sampson, Arthur W. (Arthur William), 1884-1967; Jespersen, Beryl S. [B
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