Seedling identification – a pop quiz!
We’ve got many thousands of seedlings emerging in the nursery, most just now getting their first true leaves. See if you can figure out which species are shown in the following photos (answers at the end of the post). A hint: there are three woody plants and three wildflowers shown…
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1. Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
2. Arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata)
3. Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata)
4. Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva)
5. Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
6. Silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus)
