Anyone who has visited the “vast expanse of nothingness” north of Clark County, Nevada has likely crossed what cowboy singer Richard Elloyan calls the “Artemisian seas”. The reference isn’t to bodies of water, but vast expanses of Big Sagebrush, whose Latin name is Artemisia Tridentata. Sagebrush is the signature plant of the Great Basin. Although a member of the Daisy/Sunflower family ( Asteraceae ), the yellow flower of sagebrush is small and unassuming. Nonetheless, the Nevada legislature has deemed deemed this modest, yet ubiquitous shrub to be worthy of the designation as Nevada’s “official state flower”. NRS 235.050.
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