Shale Hills 6-10" p.z.
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Description
This site has a plant community made up primarily of a mixture of shrubs and perennial grasses with a small percentage of forbs. In the original plant community (HCPC), there is a mixture of cool and warm season plants.
Plant species most likely to invade or increase on this site when it deteriorates are Russian thistle, other native and non-native annual forbs, mound saltbush, shadscale, and sickle saltbush.
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In this state, the structure and function of the original plant community has been lost. Most site have high amounts of bare ground with sparse or very little vegetation cover. Shrubs along with annual forbs and grasses, including non-natives, dominate the plant community when vegetated.
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