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Description

The plant community is about 75-90% grasses, 5-10% forbs, and 5-15% shrubs air-dry weight.

The production is predominantly made up of grasses; however, scattered shrubs such as fourwing saltbush, winterfat and green plume rabbitbrush give this site a mottled look.

The dominant grasses are western wheatgrass, switchgrass and green needlegrass. Less abundant grasses are blue grama, big bluestem, sideoats grama, yellow Indiangrass, and lesser amounts of Canada wildrye and buffalograss. Forbs that make up the plant community are Missouri goldenrod, rag sumpweed, upright prairie coneflower with lesser amounts of curlycup gumweed, prairie groundsel, Louisiana sagebrush, Missouri milkvetch, plains larkspur, scarlet globemallow and slimflower scurfpea.

The dominant shrubs that occur on this site are fourwing saltbush, with lesser amounts of fringed sagebrush, green plume rabbitbrush, plains pricklypear, rubber rabbitbrush and winterfat.

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