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Common Name
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Scientific Name
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Notes
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PLAINS GRASSLAND
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Grasses
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Indian Grass
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Sorghastrum avenaceum
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Winter seed source/H
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Little Bluestem
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Schizachyrium scoparium
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Winter seed source/H
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Side Oats Grama Grass
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Bouteloua curtipendula
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Nectar and seed source
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Switchgrass
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Panicum virgatum
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Cover and fall color
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Perennials
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Bush Sunflower
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Helianthus pumilus
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Fall seed source
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Stemless Evening Primrose
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Oenothera howardii
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Lures hovering moths
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Orange Butterflyweed
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Asclepias tuberosa
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Butterfly magnet/H
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Prairie Coneflower
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Ratibida columnifera
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Finches eat seed heads
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Yellow Prickly Pear
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Opuntia polyacantha
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Bee nectar; fruit
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Shrubs
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Hackberry
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Celtis reticulata
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Fruit eaten by birds
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Hawthorn
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Crataegus erythropoda
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Fruit, thorns for cover
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Sand Cherry
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Cerasus (Prunus) besseyi
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Every one eats the fruit
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Three Leaf Sumac/Skunkbush
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Rhus aromatica ssp. trilobata
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Fruit for birds
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Trees
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Plains Cottonwood
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Populus deltoides/monilifera
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Nest habitat for orioles & owls
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PINON-JUNIPER WOODLAND
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Grasses
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Blue Grama
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Chondrosum bouteloua gracilis
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Substitute for bluegrass/H
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Indian Ricegrass
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Achnatherum hymenoides
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Seeds eaten by birds/H
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Needle and Thread
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Hesperostipa comata
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Seeds eaten by birds/H
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Perennials
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Wild Four O’clock
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Mirabilis multiflora
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Nectar feeding insects
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Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
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Cleome serrulata
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Butterfly magnet/self sows
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Rocky Mountain Penstemon
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Penstemon strictus
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Nectar feeding insects
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Scarlet Bugler Penstemon
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Penstemon barbatus
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Hummingbird attractant
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Silvery Lupine
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Lupinus argenteus
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Seeds eaten by birds/H
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Shrubs
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Oregon-Grape
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Mahonia repens
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Berries eaten by birds
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Rubber Rabbitbrush, Green
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Chrysothamnus nauseosus
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Moths, butterflies, birds/H
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Three-leaf Sumac
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Rhus aromatica trilobata
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Berries and cover/H
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Trees
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Piņon Pine
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Pinus edulis
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Pinon Jays/wildlife eat nuts
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Rocky Mountain Juniper
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Sabina scopulorum
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Winter berries/birds/H
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PONDEROSA PINE FOREST/GAMBEL’S OAK CHAPARRAL
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Grasses
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Big Bluestem
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Andropogon gerardii
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Winter seed source
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Idaho Fescue
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Festuca idahoensis
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Seeds eaten by birds
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Junegrass
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Koeleria macrantha
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Cover, food for grazers/H
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Mountain Muhly
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Muhlenbergia montana
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Cover/food for birds
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Perennials
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Bee Balm
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Monarda fistulosa
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Hummer magnet/self sows
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Scarlet Gilia
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Ipomopsis aggregata
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Hummingbird magnet
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Sulfur Flower Buckwheat
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Eriogonum umbellatum
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Butterflies and bees
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Wild Strawberry
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Fragaria virginiana ssp. glauca
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Fruit eaten by everyone
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Shrubs
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Boulder Raspberry
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Oreobatus (Rubus) deliciosus
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Fruit eaten by wildlife
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Kinnikinnick
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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Berries eaten by wildlife
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Mountain Ninebark
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Physocarpus monogynus
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Showy blooms/seed/H
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Mountain Mahogany
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Cercocarpus montanus
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Cover/pods/birds
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Serviceberry
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Amelanchier alnifolia
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Fruit eaten by wildlife/H
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Silver Buffaloberry
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Shepherdia argentea
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Fruit eaten by wildlife
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SPRUCE/FIR/ASPEN MONTANE
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Grasses
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Mountain Muhly
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Muhlenbergia montana
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Cover/food for birds
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Perennials
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Tall Beard Tongue, Blue Mist
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Penstemon virgatus
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Hummingbirds and butterflies
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Colorado Columbine
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Aquilegia caerulea
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Bee magnet
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Coral Bells
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Heuchera sanguinea
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Nectar feeding insects
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Western Sneezeweed
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Helenium hoopesii
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Bird and insect food
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Shrubs
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Mountain Spiraea
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Holodiscus dumosus
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Cover for birds
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Red Elderberry
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Sambucus racemosa
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Every one eats the berries
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Thimbleberry
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Rubacer parviflorus
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Fruit for wildlife
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Twinberry Honeysuckle
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Lonicera involucrata
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Cover, nectar and berries
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Trees
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Aspen
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Populus tremuloides
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Woodpecker/swallow nesting
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SEMI-DESERT SHRUBLAND
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Grasses
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Bluebunch Wheatgrass, Western
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Agropyron spicatum
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Good cover, birds eat seeds
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Idaho Fescue
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Festuca idahoensis
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Saltgrass
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Distichilis stricta
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Bunchgrass, birds eat seed
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salty soils okay, birds eat seed
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Perennials
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Adobe Blanketflower
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Gaillardia pinnatifida
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Birds eat seeds, nectar/bees
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Arrowleaf Balsamroot
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Balsamorhiza sagittata
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Bee magnet, birds eat seeds
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Indian Paintbrush
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Castilleja integra
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Hummer magnet/buy seed
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Lewis’ Flax - Blue
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Linum lewisii
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Butterfly/bee/not European var.
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Prince’s Plume
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Stanleya pinnata
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Spring nectar bees/hummers
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Silvery Lupine
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Lupinus argenteus
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Birds eat the seeds/H
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Shrubs
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Antelope Bitterbrush
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Purshia tridentata
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Birds eat the seeds
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Big Sagebrush
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Artemisia tridentata
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Cover for birds and lizards
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Four-winged Saltbush
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Atriplex canescens
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Seeds/leaves eaten, good cover
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Winterfat
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Krascheninnikovia lanata
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Stellar winter browse plant
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Trees
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Utah Juniper
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Sabina osteosperma
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Berries eaten by birds
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RIPARIAN/WETLANDS
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Grasses/Grasslike plants
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Cattail
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Typha latifolia
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Cover/nest material/spreads
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Prairie Cordgrass
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Spartina pectinata
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Cover and seeds
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Tufted Hairgrass
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Deschampsia caespitosa
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Cover and seeds/H
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Perennials
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Arrowhead
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Sagittaria latifolia
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Cover, nectar for insects
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Nuttall’s Sunflower
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Helianthus nuttallii
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Goldfinches love seeds
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Rocky Mountain Iris
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Iris missouriensis
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Nectar for spring insects
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Shrubs
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Chokecherry
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Padus (Prunus) virginiana
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Bees, all eat the fruit/H
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Golden Currant
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Ribes aureum odoratum
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Flowers attract hummers, bees
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Peach Leaf Willow
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Salix amygdaloides
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Cover
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Redtwig Dogwood
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Cornus stolonifera
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Cover, birds eat berries
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Streambank Willow, Coyote
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Salix exigua
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Cover
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