Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland

Type:Group
Parent classification:Great Basin-Intermountain Tall Sagebrush Steppe & Shrubland
Scientific Name:Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis - Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata Steppe & Shrubland Group
Location:United States (Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah); Canada
Description:This widely distributed, matrix-forming shrubland group is concentrated in the drier, more southerly portions of the interior western U.S., but extends into more xeric portions of the Columbia Plateau, Rocky Mountains, across Wyoming, then northeast into the northwestern Great Plains. Vegetation is typically dominated by Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis and Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata, sometimes codominated by xeric shrubs such as Atriplex spp., with a typically sparse to open herbaceous layer dominated by dry-site graminoids.
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Child types

Name
Antelope Bitterbrush - Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland
Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis Dry Steppe & Shrubland Alliance
Basin Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland
Big Sagebrush - Mixed Desert Shrubland
Wyoming Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland

Species

Name
Acrolophitus pulchellus (Idaho pointheaded grasshopper)
Amphispiza bilineata (Black-throated Sparrow)
Athene cunicularia hypugaea (Western burrowing owl)
Brachylagus idahoensis (Pygmy Rabbit)
Centrocercus minimus (Gunnison Sage-Grouse)
Centrocercus urophasianus (Sage Grouse)
Cercyonis pegala pluvialis
Coleonyx variegatus (Western Banded Gecko)
Crotalus oreganus concolor (Pygmy faded rattlesnake)
Cynomys gunnisoni (Gunnison's prairie dog)
Cynomys leucurus (white-tailed prairie dog)
Empidonax wrightii (Grey Flycatcher)
Gambelia wislizenii (Longnose Leopard Lizard)
Lepus californicus (Black-tailed Jackrabbit)
Mustela nigripes (Black-footed Ferret)
Myiarchus cinerascens (Ash-throated Flycatcher)
Oreoscoptes montanus (Sage Thrasher)
Perognathus flavus (silky pocket mouse)
Perognathus mollipilosus
Phrynosoma hernandesi (Mountain Short-horned Lizard)
Progne subis (Purple Martin)
Rhinocheilus lecontei (Longnose Snake)
Sceloporus graciosus (Sagebrush Lizard)
Sceloporus graciosus graciosus (Northern sagebrush lizard)
Sonora semiannulata (ground snake)
Spea intermontana (Great Basin Spadefoot)
Spizella breweri (Brewer's Sparrow)
Thomomys bottae abstrusus (Fish Spring pocket gopher)
Thomomys clusius (Wyoming pocket gopher)
Thomomys idahoensis (Idaho pocket gopher)
Tympanuchus phasianellus (Sharp-tailed Grouse)
Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus (Sharp-tailed grouse)
Urocitellus mollis (Piute ground squirrel)
Urocitellus washingtoni (Washington ground squirrel)
Uta stansburiana (Side-blotched Lizard)
Vireo vicinior (Grey Vireo)

Habitat Vegetation Classification provided by NatureServe Explorer