Intermountain Shadscale - Saltbush Scrub
| Type: | Group | | Parent classification: | Intermountain Saltbush Scrub | | Scientific Name: | Atriplex confertifolia - Atriplex canescens - Grayia spinosa Scrub Group | | Location: | Mexico (Chihuahua); United States (Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Washington, California, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Texas) | | Description: | This widespread semi-arid scrub group is found in basins, plains, alluvial flats and slopes in the intermountain western U.S. and western Great Plains and is characterized by a typically open to moderately dense shrub layer dominated or codominated by Atriplex canescens, Atriplex confertifolia, Atriplex cuneata, Atriplex hymenelytra, Atriplex obovata, Atriplex polycarpa, Grayia spinosa, and/or Picrothamnus desertorum often with other shrubs present to codominant. | | Website: | View website |
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