Loamy Plains

Description

The plant community is about 90-95% grasses, 5 to 10% forbs and 5 to 10% shrubs. Blue grama, western wheatgrass, bottlebrush squirreltail, galleta, Junegrass and sideoats grama, make up most of the plant community which total 60 to 80%. Grasses such as buffalograss, threeawn, New Mexico needlegrass, wolftail, needleandthread, sand dropseed and shrubs such as winterfat and fringed sage are secondary in the community. Small amounts of ring muhly, plains pricklypear, Missouri ball cactus, slimflower scurfpea, heath aster, dotted gayfeather, silky sophora, silver bluestem, scarlet globemallow, curlycup gumweed, ironplant goldenweed, upright prairieclover, and wavyleaf thistle grow in small amounts in scattered distribution. Other shrubs such as small soapweed, green plume rabbitbrush, walkingstick cholla, broom snakeweed, and fourwing saltbush, occur in the community. An occasional oneseed juniper may occupy this site is adjacent to a break site.

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