Excerpt from Characteristics and Hybridization of Important Intermountain Shrubs: III. Sunflower Family Shrubs of the sunflower family are among the most common and important plants of the Intermountain area. In many valley, foothill, and mountain locations, composite shrubs, especially the sagebrushes and rabbitbrushes, provide the principal vegetation. These shrubs are invaluable as ground cover on natural and disturbed landscapes, as forage for wild and domestic herbivores, and as habitat for smaller creatures. The authors discuss and review vegetative, floral, and reproductive characteristics, hybridization, distribution and habitat, use, and division into subspecies entries for important Intermountain species. The following genera are covered: Artemisia, Chrysothamnus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.