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Pinus flexilis / Pseudoroegneria spicata Woodland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Pinus flexilis / Pseudoroegneria spicata Woodland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This limber pine woodland is a dry evergreen woodland found in the northern Rocky Mountains and adjacent northwestern Great Plains of the United States. Soils are dry, shallow, and rocky. The parent material is commonly limestone or sandstone, and there is a significant amount of unvegetated ground. The woodland overstory is dominated by <i>Pinus flexilis</i>, with lesser amounts of <i>Juniperus scopulorum</i>. Shrubs are present but not common. They are typically low shrubs, such as <i>Opuntia</i> spp. and <i>Yucca glauca</i>. The most common species of the herbaceous layer is <i>Pseudoroegneria spicata</i>. Other graminoids are <i>Bouteloua gracilis, Leucopoa kingii, Koeleria macrantha</i>, and <i>Achnatherum hymenoides</i>. Forbs species typical of this community are <i>Draba</i> spp., <i>Liatris</i> spp., and <i>Phlox</i> spp. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:29722-{ABDA57DC-2721-41A7-B512-D4D6585B1F18}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 07-Jul-2005 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685042 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL000813
  Translated: Limber Pine / Bluebunch Wheatgrass Woodland
  Common: Limber Pine / Bluebunch Wheatgrass Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus flexilis / Pseudoroegneria spicata Woodland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Pinus flexilis / Pseudoroegneria spicata Woodland
(similar) Pinus flexilis / Pseudoroegneria spicata Woodland
(similar) CEGL000813