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Yucca schidigera Scrub Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Yucca schidigera Scrub Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: Stands of this desert alliance are found throughout the Mojave and Colorado deserts and southern Great Basin. The vegetation is characterized by a sparse, emergent woody layer of <i>Yucca schidigera</i> (2-5 m tall) with 3-5% total cover over an open to moderately dense short-shrub layer. Short shrubs present may include <i>Ambrosia dumosa, Agave deserti, Coleogyne ramosissima, Echinocactus polycephalus, Echinocereus engelmannii, Encelia farinosa, Ephedra nevadensis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Ferocactus cylindraceus, Larrea tridentata, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, Opuntia</i> spp., <i>Peucephyllum schottii, Salazaria mexicana, Simmondsia chinensis</i>, and <i>Viguiera parishii</i>. The herbaceous layer is open or patchy to sparse and often dominated by <i>Pleuraphis rigida</i> with annuals seasonally present. Stands occur on alluvial fans, rocky slopes and upper bajadas. Sites are rocky, well-drained slopes between 50 and 2500 m elevation, but stands regularly occur above 900 m in the Mojave Desert. Substrates are well-drained sandy loams. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38435-{2E9EC721-947E-46C7-98B2-D90CED473187}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 18-Dec-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899272 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A3147
  Translated: Mojave Yucca Scrub Alliance
  Common: Mojave Yucca Scrub
  Scientific: Yucca schidigera Scrub Alliance