Shaly Foothill

Description

The plant community is about 90% grasses, 5% forbs and 5% shrubs air dry weight.

The production is predominantly made up of grasses, which give this site a distinctive mid-grass aspect.

The dominant grasses are western wheatgrass, green needlegrass, Montana (Griffith) wheatgrass, needle and thread, sideoats grama, and little bluestem. Less abundant grasses are blue grama, prairie junegrass, bottlebrush squirreltail, big bluestem, and Indian ricegrass. Forbs that make up the plant community are foothill arnica, purple prairieclover, scarlet globemallow, and slimflower scurfpea.

Shrubs that are most noticeable on this site are winterfat, fourwing saltbush, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and green plume rabbitbrush.

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