• Native Americans used White Sagebrush as a medicine. Mainly used for headaches, fever, cough, cold, and flu.

• Above ground, sagebrush is a nurse plant, creating crucial conditions for other native plants to grow.

• Herbivores feed on White Sagebrush.

 

Our 6th and 7th grade class has been trying to answer the question of whether we should preserve the Palouse Prairie that has 99.9% disappeared.  One of our case studies involved native and invasive plant species and their current role in the Prairie ecosystem.

Sources

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/artemisia_ludoviciana.shtml

 

https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/pg_arlu.pdf

 

https://www.audubon.org/news/celebrating-sagebrush-wests-most-important-native-plant#:~:text=Above%20ground%2C%20sag