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Yucca schidigera - Eriogonum fasciculatum Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Yucca schidigera - Eriogonum fasciculatum Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This desert scrub association is found at mid to upper elevations in Mojave Desert in California. It is characterized by an open to moderately dense shrub canopy (13-41% cover) codominated by <i>Yucca schidigera</i> and <i>Eriogonum fasciculatum</i> with <i>Acacia greggii, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa</i>, and <i>Ephedra nevadensis</i> being characteristically present. Many other shrubs are often present. Occasional emergent <i>Yucca brevifolia, Juniperus californica</i>, or <i>Pinus monophylla</i> trees are sometimes present. If present, the herbaceous layer is typically open and composed of native grasses and forbs, including <i>Achnatherum speciosum, Amsinckia</i> spp., <i>Sphaeralcea ambigua</i>, and exotic annuals <i>Bromus rubens</i> and <i>Erodium cicutarium</i>. Stands occur primarily on rolling, low to midslopes to steeper bedrock exposed ridges at 900-1850 m elevation. Sites have gentle to steep slopes (to 29°) with easterly to southwesterly aspects. Soils are loamy (sandy to clayey loams) and are derived from a variety of substrates, usually granodiorite, rhyolite, alkali-granite (alaskite), alluvium, or gneiss. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:34454-{AD0D5FA5-FE68-4526-82E3-E3F02701FEF6}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 22-Nov-2016 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.971786 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL005781
  Translated: Mojave Yucca - Eastern Mojave Buckwheat Shrubland
  Scientific: Yucca schidigera - Eriogonum fasciculatum Shrubland