Name:
Juniperus californica - Pinus quadrifolia / Quercus cornelius-mulleri Woodland Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This alliance consists of scrub woodlands, generally less than 5 m in height, where <i>Juniperus californica</i> is dominant or codominant with <i>Pinus monophylla, Pinus quadrifolia</i>, and/or <i>Yucca brevifolia</i>. Shrubs may include <i>Agave deserti, Artemisia tridentata, Coleogyne ramosissima, Ephedra</i> spp., <i>Lepidospartum squamatum, Nolina parryi, Purshia mexicana, Quercus cornelius-mulleri, Yucca schidigera</i>, and/or <i>Hesperoyucca whipplei</i>. In some stands, the junipers are open-grown trees over grassy understories. In others, the junipers form a mixed canopy with other trees or shrubs. Herbaceous layer is sparse or grassy. Geographically, these woodlands are found in the transmontane desert regions of southern California in the Mojave Desert and along the edges of the Mojave in the eastern Los Angles Plain, western Riverside County, upper elevations of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, and in northern Baja California, Mexico. Stands occur on ridges, slopes, valleys, alluvial fans, valley bottoms at elevations ranging from 600-2450 m. Soils are porous, rocky, coarse, sandy or silty, and often very shallow.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38640-{12CEB881-1E48-4AF9-A231-D43D3489FFA8}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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