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Fringed sagebrush is a woody shrub with silvery leaves and little yellow flowers. Sagebrush has a strong odor after it rains that smells like turpentine or camphor.
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Milkvetch is a perennial found throughout northern and southwestern China and northern North America. It is a perfect plant for cold, and arid to semi-arid regions with poor or saline soils. It has a very long tap root and can get water deep in the ground.
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Rhubarb is a member of the sorrel family, and grows in the wild in western and northwestern provinces of China. It is grown commercially in much of Europe and the United States. The name rhubarb comes from the Medieval Latin reubarbarum, literally meaning barbarian rhubarb.
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When westerns were big in the movies, you could always hear some lonesome cowboy sing about the tumbling tumbleweed. The tumbleweed stood for everything a cowboy was; a little ugly, lanky, and a foot loose rambler.
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The Corsac fox is a long legged, reddish gray fox with large ears and a short, pointy face. Its coat is grayish-red with silver undertones, and the under parts are white with yellow undertones. Its chin is also white.
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The Mongolian Gerbil is light brown with black tipped hairs and its under fur is gray. They are the size of any pet gerbil. They live in burrows with sandy soil and a little bit of grass, herbs and shrubs.
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The northern lynx is basically a very large cat with a powerful body, short sturdy legs, and a very short tail. They have large heads, and long tufted ears which stand straight up. Their coats are usually yellowish-brown and white on its undersides.
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The Saiga antelope once roamed from western Europe, across the Eurasian continent and into Alaska. It now only lives in areas of the dry steppes and semi deserts of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kalmykia.
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The saker falcon is a big, strong bird of prey with large feet and pointed wings. It is larger than the peregrine falcon, and has a very wide wingspan for its size. There are several subspecies of saker falcons; the steppe Saker (Falco cherrug cherrug)
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A steppe climate is found in the middle of continents and in the lee of high mountains. The mountains block moist air from oceans or tropical climates from reaching the steppe. There is not enough precipitation for trees to grow except by rivers.
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In the middle of North America is a huge area of land which was once covered with grasses and colorful wild flowers. The French called the rolling plains of grass "prairie", from the word for a meadow grazed by cattle. The prairies are a type of grassland dominated by herbaceous plants and grasses.
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This grass is also called Turkey feet because the shape of the seed heads look like turkey feet. It is also called beard grass. The name big bluestem grass comes from the fact that this grass can grow to very big, 3 to 10 feet as a matter of fact.
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Blue grama grass is a warm season tufted perennial grass. It is native to the short and tall grass prairies, and makes up 75% to 90% of the grasses found there. The prairies lie in central North America.
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Buffalo grass is a very hardy grass and grows mostly in the North American prairies. The North American prairies lie in the middle of the continent and have a dry climate during the summer, and a very cold and windy climate in the winter.
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Fleabane is part of the Aster family and blooms from April through June. Fleabane looks like a daisy, with about a 100 ray-like petals that can be white or pinkish. The centers are yellow.
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