Talk given to the Park County Weed & Pest Early Detection/Rapid Response team on May 4, 2009. This talk was an introduction to plant morphology and important local range species.

1. Common Range Plants
In the Bighorn Basin
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2. Plant Morphology
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3. Plant Morphology
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10. Plant Morphology and Weeds
Seed:
•high production
•creative dissemination
•longevity in the soil
Plant:
•early/late germination
•early competitiveness
•Photosynthetic efficiency
•Allelopathy
•Vegetative
•rhizomes
•stolons
•tubers
•bulbs
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11. Big Sage
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12. Big Sage
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13. Silver Sage
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15. Fringed Sage
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17. Rubber Rabbitbrush
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19. Prairie Sandreed
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20. Alkali Sacaton
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22. Needleandthread
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24. Indian Ricegrass
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26. Blue Grama
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28. Crested Wheatgrass
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30. Western Wheatgrass
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32. Bluebunch Wheatgrass
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33. Idaho Fescue
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35. Buffalograss
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