| Type: | Alliance |
| Parent classification: | Black Hills-Northwestern Great Plains Ponderosa Pine Forest & Woodland |
| Scientific Name: | Pinus ponderosa Plains-Montane Dry-mesic Forest & Woodland Alliance |
| Location: | United States (Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, Montana) |
| Description: | This Black Hills forest and woodland alliance has a tree canopy dominated by Pinus ponderosa but may include a sparse to relatively dense subcanopy of Juniperus scopulorum and Populus tremuloides with an understory composed of relatively dry shrub species such as Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Juniperus communis, Juniperus horizontalis, and Mahonia repens without mesic to wet indicator species. Stands occur at foothill and montane elevations on all aspects on gentle to steep dry to mesic slopes. |
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