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Atriplex canescens Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Atriplex canescens Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This shrubland association is known from the Great Basin north into the southern Columbia Basin, east into Wyoming, the Colorado Plateau and northern Chihuahuan Desert, and west into the Mojave Desert of California. The vegetation is characterized by a sparse short-shrub layer (10-35% cover) dominated or codominated by <i>Atriplex canescens</i>, typically with a variable and often sparse herbaceous layer. Notable codominants in the shrub layer include <i>Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus, Coleogyne ramosissima, Ephedra nevadensis, Eriogonum nummulare, Grayia spinosa, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Lycium pallidum</i>, or several species of <i>Psorothamnus</i>. The herbaceous layer includes low cover of species such as <i>Achnatherum hymenoides, Aristida purpurea, Elymus elymoides, Pleuraphis jamesii</i>, and <i>Sporobolus cryptandrus</i>. Introduced species, especially <i>Bromus tectorum, Bromus diandrus</i>, and <i>Salsola kali</i>, are common on disturbed sites and can create an herbaceous layer much denser than on undisturbed sites. Winter annual forb cover is variable depending on annual precipitation. It is common at middle elevations on alluvial fans and toeslopes in deep, sandy soils but will occur at lower elevations along alluvial benches where soils are often finer-textured and possibly saline/alkaline. Parent materials are variable. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30190-{9F8C0774-7694-4C81-A216-4B27F3AB876F}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 2
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 12-Jul-2016 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689979 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001281
  Translated: Fourwing Saltbush Shrubland
  Scientific: Atriplex canescens Shrubland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL001281
(similar) Atriplex canescens Shrubland
(similar) Atriplex canescens Shrubland