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A.861 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.861
Reference: EcoArt 2002
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.2489.A861
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: III.A.5.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: FLOURENSIA CERNUA SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.861
  Common: Tarbush Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Flourensia cernua Shrubland Alliance