Mojave-Sonoran Semi-Desert Scrub
| Type: | Macrogroup | | Parent classification: | Southwest North American Warm Desert | | Scientific Name: | Carnegiea gigantea - Stenocereus thurberi - Ambrosia dumosa Mojave-Sonoran Semi-Desert Scrub Macrogroup | | Location: | United States (California, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada); Mexico (Guerrero, Sonora, Coahuila, Baja California del Sur, Baja California, Sinaloa) | | Description: | This warm temperate to subtropical, semi-desert scrub macrogroup occurs in the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Sonora and central to northern Baja California, Mexico, and is characterized by a sparse to moderately dense layer (1-50% cover) of xeromorphic, evergreen and drought-deciduous, microphyllous and broad-leaved shrubs and/or succulent species, especially cacti and rosette stem succulents and sarcocaulescent trees and shrubs. Larrea tridentata is often present to dominant with Ambrosia dumosa and many Sonoran or Mojave desert diagnostic species. | | Website: | View website |
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