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Atriplex canescens Desert Wash Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Atriplex canescens Desert Wash Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This desert wash shrubland is known from the Colorado Plateau and northern Mojave Desert, extending into the southern Great Basin. Total vegetation cover is 6-30% and is dominated by a scattered to open canopy of <i>Atriplex canescens</i>. Associated shrubs include <i>Artemisia filifolia, Atriplex gardneri, Brickellia longifolia, Ephedra torreyana, Ephedra viridis, Ericameria nauseosa, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Fraxinus anomala, Lycium andersonii, Rhus trilobata</i>, and <i>Suaeda moquinii</i>. Herbaceous cover is sparse (&lt;10% cover) with a variety of grasses and forbs such as <i>Achnatherum hymenoides, Artemisia dracunculus, Muhlenbergia porteri, Sporobolus cryptandrus, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, Sporobolus contractus, Stanleya pinnata</i>, and <i>Scabrethia scabra</i>. Non-native annuals such as <i>Bromus rubens, Bromus tectorum</i> and <i>Salsola tragus</i> are sometimes present. Stands occur on sandy terraces and wash bottoms at 1110 to 1600 m elevation. Sites are flat to gently sloping and occur in and along intermittent washes. Substrates are rapidly drained, sandy or gravelly soils derived from alluvium, cinder and sandstone. Scattered large rocks, gravel and bare ground cover most of the unvegetated surface. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32352-{FE67DCA4-279C-4844-BF19-7E3E35C34CD3}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 09-Aug-2016 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685791 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003470
  Translated: Fourwing Saltbush Desert Wash Shrubland
  Scientific: Atriplex canescens Desert Wash Shrubland
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(similar) Atriplex canescens Desert Wash Shrubland