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Wildflowers - Broom Snakeweed
 
Broom Snakeweed, Turpentine-weed - Gutierrezia sarothrae
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Broom Snakeweed, Turpentine-weed - Gutierrezia sarothrae
 
American Indians of the Southwest used the stems of Broom Snakeweed for sweeping, hence its name.  Quail and kangaroo rats eat its seeds.
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Lewis and Clark, while on their journey up the Missouri River in 1804, noted that this "wild dog of the prairie...appears here in infinite numbers."
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