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Flourensia cernua Shrubland Alliance | Western Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Flourensia cernua Shrubland Alliance
Reference: Western Ecology Working Group of...
Description: This alliance includes desert shrublands with Flourensia cernua as the main shrub component, often forming extensive shrublands on desert flats in the Chihuahuan Desert, Trans-Pecos of western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Common associates include Bouteloua curtipendula, Pleuraphis mutica (= Hilaria mutica), Sporobolus airoides, and Achnatherum eminens (= Stipa eminens). Other species may include Krameria erecta (= Krameria glandulosa), Opuntia imbricata var. imbricata, Atriplex canescens, Dasylirion spp., Prosopis glandulosa, Acacia constricta, Acacia greggii, Bouteloua ramosa, Bouteloua breviseta, Chamaesaracha sordida, Haploesthes greggii, and Isocoma pluriflora. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.19089.FLOURENSIACERNU
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: Flourensia cernua Shrubland Alliance
  Translated: Tarbush Shrubland Alliance
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.126211 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A.861