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Hesperostipa neomexicana Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Hesperostipa neomexicana Grassland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This grassland community occurs on extremely dry and warm sites in the southeastern Colorado Great Plains, along the adjacent Rocky Mountain foothills, and in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. It has been documented on rocky (basalt), steep, southerly slopes at the higher elevations of its range or on any aspect on limestone or shale outcrops at lower elevations. The community is a grassland that is most often heavily dominated by the cool-season, bunchgrass <i>Hesperostipa neomexicana</i>. Good condition stands have abundant <i>Hesperostipa neomexicana</i> with many plants having touching or overlapping canopies. <i>Bouteloua gracilis</i> is nearly always present in this community and is more abundant in degraded stands or on ecotones to finer textured soils. A similar association, ~<i>Hesperostipa neomexicana</i> Mixed Prairie Grassland (CEGL001711)$$, occurs in New Mexico but differs in that it is more species-rich and generally not so heavily dominated by <i>Hesperostipa neomexicana</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30617-{B811F9C5-1991-4EFD-B521-F836CE885967}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689599 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001708
  Translated: New Mexico Feathergrass Grassland
  Common: New Mexico Feathergrass Mixedgrass Prairie
  Scientific: Hesperostipa neomexicana Grassland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL001708
(similar) Hesperostipa neomexicana Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Hesperostipa neomexicana Herbaceous Vegetation