Bitterbrush
Its name bespeaks the hard life it endures. Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) is a member of the rose family, a shrub that thrives on arid mountainsides. Martha Fletcher found it, along with bright yellow rabbitbrush, pushing up out of deformed lava flows south of Burney Mountain (7,863′) and close to Twin Buttes (5,340′) along the Volcanic […]