A Winterfat subshrub growing in its native habitat of the eastern Colorado short grass prairie.

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Winterfat as seen here has set seed which will be distributed by the wind. It is a valuable source of protein in the winter for browsing wildlife and domestic animals. Notice the house fly on the tip of the right stem.

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Colorado eastern plains, USA
Photo credit: © David Winger / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: -shrub, autumn, browse, ceratoides, eurotia, fall, feather-sage, forb, grass, head, krascheninnikovia, lambstail, lanata, native, natural, plant, seed, subshrub, sweet-sage, vegetation, western, white-sage, winter-sage, winterfat