Chihuahuan Piedmont & Foothill Desert Scrub
| Type: | Group | | Parent classification: | Chihuahuan Desert Scrub | | Scientific Name: | Larrea tridentata - Flourensia cernua - Acacia neovernicosa Chihuahuan Mixed Desert Scrub Group | | Location: | Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Sonora); United States (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas) | | Description: | This desert scrub group forms the extensive desert scrub that occurs in the broad desert basins and plains extending up onto dissected gravelly alluvial fans and piedmonts and foothills in the Chihuahuan Desert and is characterized by a moderate to sparse shrub layer (<10% cover on extremely xeric sites) that is dominated by Larrea tridentata sometimes with other species such as Acacia constricta, Acacia neovernicosa, Agave lechuguilla, Bernardia obovata, Dasylirion leiophyllum, Flourensia cernua, Fouquieria splendens, Lycium spp., Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera, Mortonia scabrella, Opuntia engelmannii, Parthenium incanum, Viguiera stenoloba, and Yucca spp. | | Website: | View website |
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