Big Galleta Desert Grassland

Type:Alliance
Parent classification:North American Warm Semi-Desert Dune & Sand Flats
Scientific Name:Pleuraphis rigida Desert Grassland Alliance
Location:United States (California, Arizona, Nevada); Mexico (Sonora)
Description:This Mojave and Sonoran desert grassland and shrub-steppe alliance is dominated by the semi-woody perennial grass Pleuraphis rigida often with low cover of Ambrosia dumosa or Larrea tridentata and typically occurs on sandy substrates found on flat ridges, lower slopes, stabilized sand dunes and sandsheets, and sandy plains.
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Child types

Name
Ambrosia dumosa / Pleuraphis rigida Dwarf-shrubland
Pleuraphis rigida Dune Grassland
Pleuraphis rigida Grassland
Pleuraphis rigida Shrub Grassland [Placeholder]

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