#rabbitbrush

[corduroyqueen1969]

“Chamisa” by Robert Daughters

Western American Rabbitbrush (𝘌𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘕𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘴𝘢)

[climbhighsleeplow]

Rabbitbrush

Yakima River Canyon

[riverwindphotography]

Scene from a Spring snow storm, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

(c) riverwindphotography, April 2023

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[ksjanes]

In case you are curious this yellow shrub is a rubber rabbitbrush is also known as gray rabbitbrush, or chamisa. This perennial shrub is a member of the Aster family (Asteraceae) along with sagebrush. Rubber rabbitbrush is highly variable, with several different subspecies located throughout the western United States. There was a lot of it at the Great Sand Dunes.

[write-as-rains]

The flowers still rise

the sun tracing the sky

rabbitbrush yellow

congregating

[dramoor]

"God's loving kindness and tender mercies are there, sometimes obscured by life's brambles, but always moving before us, leading the way."

~Arthur Cutten

(Photo © dramoor 2023)

[cainhowlett]

For the Carson Range, NV. Commission