Botany contes t#3

[Big Muddy rancher]

Hope this works, I have three plants in one photo and a couple of kickers to help you out. :wink: If you can guess them your doing pretty good or i'm going to have to try harder.

These next two are similar but on the same as the three plants in the top two pics. I hope they are good enough quality. These two are the same plant.

This is the last one. taken from horse back and she wanted to go home.

 

[Faster horses]

In the first picture, my guess is Winterfat is the first plant,
sagewort the second and I'm still thinking about the third...
my guess is that it is silver sage...

 

[leanin' H]

Faster Horses, if that was silver sage we'd be able to smell it! :wink: :lol:

 

[Clarencen]

This is probably just a guess too. The first one might e Cudweed Sagewort, the second Fringed Sagewort and the third one has leaves like Absinth Wormwood

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

To the best of my knowledge the one on the left is Prairie sage, the middle one is Pasture sage and the one on the right is Sage brush.

The close up and the next picture are Winter Fat.

The bottom picture is rabbit bush.

The are all very similar to the casual glance is why I picked them.

The sages all smell and winter Fat doesn't and it's leaves are lined with the edges rolled back or inwards, making a boat shape.

 

[Faster horses]

Let's see what Clarencen says. That will be interesting.

Do you have much of the winterfat?
We lived in Lander, Wyoming for a short time when I was a freshman
in high school. There was a lot of winterfat on the Sweetwater dessert
and the ranchers had a high regard for winter fat.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I think you would consider us having quite a bit.

 

[gcreekrch]

I think you would consider us having quite a bit.

Thought you were still on that diet. :lol: :lol: :roll:

 

[Clarencen]

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

That stumped me. What about this one.

 

[little bow rancher]

we had some winterfat where we were the cows loved it ,they would chew the spot too the ground like sheep , as for the pic could it be junitper barrys

 

[Clarencen]

BMR that looks to me like it could be a milkvetch. Looks sommwhat like the groundplum or buffalo bean. The plant I showed is also an Astragalus. It is Bird's egg pea, Fararr called it Birds egg vetch. It grows on blowouts in the Sandhills. Soapweed may have seen it. Mary Ann Beal worked with 4H, and took pictures of native plants, she said you had to look for it to find it. There is a story of how I first discovered it.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Clarence i think your right calling it Ground Plum.Hard to get good pictures in a hurry.

That bird's egg pea is sure a different one, They may have it in the Great sandhills north west of me but we don't have much sand mostly eroded clay.