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Bouteloua eriopoda - Pleuraphis jamesii Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Bouteloua eriopoda - Pleuraphis jamesii Grassland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This desert grassland has been documented from the Colorado Plateau in the upper Rio Puerco watershed in northwestern New Mexico, in north-central Arizona and southeastern Utah, and extends south to central New Mexico and west to the eastern Mojave Desert of California and Nevada. <i>Bouteloua eriopoda</i> and <i>Pleuraphis jamesii</i> dominate the low to moderate herbaceous cover. Associates include low cover of <i>Aristida purpurea, Bouteloua gracilis, Hesperostipa neomexicana, Muhlenbergia porteri, Sporobolus airoides</i>, and <i>Sporobolus cryptandrus</i>. Shrubs are few and scattered and may include <i>Atriplex canescens, Ephedra torreyana, Ephedra viridis, Ericameria nauseosa</i>, and <i>Gutierrezia sarothrae</i>. Stands occur on flat to gently sloping plains, basin floors, mesatops, and less often on steeply sloping mesa sides. Substrates are variable and include loam to clay-loam soils derived from basalt outcrop, shale, clay and sandstone, and coarser textured soils derived from black cinders and sandstone. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30660-{93F9A26F-FE21-4000-9D94-3CDC97E2B6A1}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 24-Apr-2018 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689262 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001751
  Translated: Black Grama - James' Galleta Grassland
  Common: Black Grama - Galleta Shortgrass Prairie
  Scientific: Bouteloua eriopoda - Pleuraphis jamesii Grassland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Bouteloua eriopoda - Pleuraphis jamesii Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Bouteloua eriopoda - Pleuraphis jamesii Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) CEGL001751