Login | Datasets | Logout
 

View Community Concepts - Detail

Pinus ponderosa / Artemisia tridentata - Purshia tridentata Woodland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
  click to update datacart
Name: Pinus ponderosa / Artemisia tridentata - Purshia tridentata Woodland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association is a fairly open woodland with a shrub and grass mosaic understory. The tree canopy is composed of <i>Pinus ponderosa</i> often with <i>Juniperus occidentalis</i>. Shrubs include <i>Purshia tridentata</i> and <i>Artemisia tridentata</i>. The bunchgrasses <i>Festuca idahoensis</i> and <i>Elymus elymoides</i> are found in the herbaceous layer. This association is known only from the southern Oregon portions of the East Cascades and Modoc Plateau, and possibly in adjacent California, and occurs on sites at 780-1710 m (2550-5600 feet) elevation. Soils are sand or loam to clay-loam in texture and are underlain by pumice, lava, and basalt. Stands occur on all aspects and slopes up to 55%. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:29087-{893BC578-9E7B-469A-BAFB-5A2895EB2E4F}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684573 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL000178
  Translated: Ponderosa Pine / Big Sagebrush - Antelope Bitterbrush Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus ponderosa / Artemisia tridentata - Purshia tridentata Woodland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL000178
(similar) Pinus ponderosa / Artemisia tridentata - Purshia tridentata Woodland
(similar) Pinus ponderosa / Artemisia tridentata - Purshia tridentata Woodland