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A.1259 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1259
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance contains montane grasslands occurring in mountain ranges of Trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Characteristic species include ~Bouteloua curtipendula, Schizachyrium cirratum, Lycurus setosus, Eragrostis erosa, Bothriochloa barbinodis (= var. barbinodis), Muhlenbergia rigida, Bouteloua eriopoda, Bouteloua hirsuta$, and ~Bouteloua gracilis$. In western Texas, examples of these grasslands occur in flat areas at high elevations in Chisos Mountains, and on open slopes in the Davis Mountains. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1026.A1259
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: V.A.5.N.d
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: MUHLENBERGIA EMERSLEYI HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1259
  Common: Bull Muhly Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Muhlenbergia emersleyi Herbaceous Alliance