Distribution: Widely distributed east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and Nebraska.
Habitat: Sagebrush desert and shrub-steppe to ponderosa pine forests.
Flowers: April-June
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bumblebees, bees
Deciduous, rigidly- and freely-branched shrubs, 1-2 m. tall.
Leaves wedge-shaped, 10-20 mm. long, deeply 3-lobed at the tip, greenish on the upper surface and grayish-woolly beneath.
Flowers terminal and solitary on short, lateral, leafy spurs; calyx with stalked glands and woolly hairs, tube funnel-shaped, 6-8 mm. long, the 5 lobes slightly shorter, entire, ovate-oblong; petals 5, yellow, obovate-oblong to spatulate, 6-9 mm. long; stamens 25, exerted; pistil 1.
Achene 1.5 mm. long.
Publication: Trans. Linn. Soc. London 12(1): 158 [1818]. 1817.
Tigarea tridentate Pursh
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var. tridentata – anteleope-brush, bitterbrush
Widely distributed east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and Nebraska.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Purshia tridentata in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WA Flora Checklist: Purshia tridentata checklist entry.
OregonFlora: Purshia tridentata information.
E-Flora BC: Purshia tridentata atlas page.
CalPhotos: Purshia tridentata photos.
USDA Plants: Purshia tridentata information.
