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A.1128 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1128
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: Little information is available for the ~~Picrothamnus desertorum$ Shrubland Alliance (A.1128)$$. It is one of the least common salt desert shrub communities. It occurs on alkaline, lacustrine ash deposits of the Owyhee Uplands, along the margins of the large playas, and on alluvial gravel deposits of Pleistocene lake basins. These latter habitats are the most prevalent in Nevada, and thus the alliance may prove to be more common than presently documented. ~Picrothamnus desertorum (= Artemisia spinescens)$ is the indicator woody species, with ~Elymus elymoides$ the dominant graminoid species. Some valley margins sites with deep ash or alkaline sands support only open understories of ~Elymus elymoides, Achnatherum hymenoides$, and ~Hesperostipa comata$. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.900.A1128
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: III.B.3.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: PICROTHAMNUS DESERTORUM SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1128
  Common: Bud Sagebrush Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Picrothamnus desertorum Shrubland Alliance