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INTRODUCTORY

SPECIES: Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush

ABBREVIATION:


PURTRI

SYNONYMS:


Purshia tridentata (Pursh) de Canolle [232]

NRCS PLANT CODE:


PUTR2

COMMON NAMES:


antelope bitterbrush
bitterbrush
antelope bush 
buckbrush
deerbrush 
quininebrush 

TAXONOMY:


The scientific name of antelope bitterbrush is Purshia tridentata (Pursh) DC (Rosaceae) [185]. Antelope bitterbrush hybridizes readily with Stansbury cliffrose (P. mexicana var. stansburiana) and desert bitterbrush (P. glandulosa) [62,156,214].

LIFE FORM:


Shrub

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS:


No special status

OTHER STATUS:


No entry

AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION:


Zlatnik, Elena. (1999, January). Purshia tridentata. In: Remainder of Citation


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