Plants

=**Oregon Grape**=

The Oregon grape is an evergreen shrub. It is not related to real grapes. You can eat it but it is very bitter and it can be made into jam and wine. The leaves turn purple or red in the winter. The Oregon grape is some times called the Oregon holly grape or Oregon grape holly. In the spring it has yellow flowers and in the summer it has blue berries and green leaves.

The Oregon grape has adapted to live in the desert. They are successful because animals eat them and spread their seeds, so there are more of them. It has a big population because of the amount of animals that eat it. The Oregon grape is able to reproduce.

Source(s): @http://www.hipchickdigs.com/2011/08/high-desert-plants/ @http://www.plantcare.com/encyclopedia/grape-holly-2342.aspx @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon-grape

=**Western Juniper**=

The Western Juniper is a 60 foot tall tree, with blue berries, and it has these type of green needles. Most Western Juniper trees live in the Harney, Alvord, Baker, Union, Wallowa, Crook, Malheur, Grant, Jefferson, Deschuets, Umatilla, Wasco, and Wheeler Forests. The Western Juniper eats/drinks water so that it doesn't spoil or dry up, and also to keep it alive.

A Western Juniper depends on its needles and shrubs, because that's like a persons bones, it they break the tree may die. Humans depend on the Western Juniper, because it gives us oxygen. Western Junipers often invade in open areas. Western Junipers are mostly known for their fires and berries. These trees are able to reproduce because of its berries. When it berries fall and they get water and plants start growing. Western Junipers adapt very quickly to the forests that they start growing in. Source(s): http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_rb249.pdf http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/Volume_1/juniperus/occidentalis.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper