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What is that reddish purple brush that you see at higher elevations? I have seen it when hunting in PA, Maryland, and West Virginia. It seems to get about hip high normally, but I have seen it almost 6 feet high. Guys I know just call it "The redbrush", or "The purple stuff". In the summer it is covered with small green leaves and the top of a mountain looks like an ocean of green.
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Redbud, maybe. I see a few out here in Nevada, but I don't think they're native...
probably spread from farms or ranches.
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call it hell when tracking a deer through it.multi floral rose is type of bush we have
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It is not multifloral rose.
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Mountain Laurel? Dog Hobble?
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Redbud, maybe. I see a few out here in Nevada, but I don't think they're native...
probably spread from farms or ranches. Your thinking of something else... ![[Linked Image]](http://www.cannabisculture.com/files/images/Picture%2034_4.png)
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A pic would definitely enable positive identification....
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I doubt he's referring to mountain laurel.
Is it single stems like saplings or is it bushy? I've seen patches of single stemmed stuff on old stripmines and reverting farmland near DuBois. The stuff I'm thinking of grows thick on the ground, about waist to shoulder high but is single stems, not clumpy bushes. I've seen large patches, as much as 20-30 yds. across.
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Dale- Your description reminds me of a plant we have around here, people call it dog hobble, it's in the laurel family, ever green, pointy green leaves, single stems, grows in patches. I have never seen it shoulder high, but maybe it bigger where you're at. Here's a good pic- http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/371770/#bFYI I think it's pretty toxic.
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Mountain Laurel is thick as molasses, we used to push that in PA every opening day afternoon, always full of deer
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Not rhodedendren or laurel, or that "Dog hobble" stuff. It is brushy stuff and appears to spread through the root system. In the winter when you look across it, the stuff has a red/purple tint to it with no leaves. I have seen it covering acres and acres on top of the mountain flats.
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Does it look like this? ![[Linked Image]](http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t20/JDK_2007/Red-Osier-Dogwood-7167_zps5b8ae8ed.jpg)
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Lots of scrub oak on the flats where I hunt....
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