Sandhills Plant Identification

 

 

Plant A Characteristics:

  • "Frosty" Forb
  • Perennial
  • Silver, gray leaves covered with wooly hairs
  • Strong smell when leaves are crushed
  • Medium/fair forage value
  • Small round, gray seeds will appear in fall
  • Edge of leaf is toothed near the tip

  Cudweed sagewort matureCudweed sagewort seeds

 

 


 

 

Plant B Characteristics:

  • Leaves come out at base in 3's
  • Bright green color
  • No nodes
  • Stem is triangle shaped
  • Rubbery feel to leaves

 

 Sun Sedge

 

 

 Sedge seedhead

 

 

Answer Key

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