| Type: | Alliance |
| Parent classification: | Colorado Plateau Pinyon - Juniper Woodland |
| Scientific Name: | Pinus edulis - Juniperus osteosperma / Shrub Understory Foothill & Lower Montane Dry-Mesic Woodland Alliance |
| Location: | United States (New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada) |
| Description: | This woodland alliance is characterized by diagnostic tree species Pinus edulis that forms a very open to moderately dense tree layer often with Juniperus osteosperma (sometimes with Juniperus monosperma or Juniperus scopulorum) and an understory dominated by an open to dense layer of relatively mesic shrubs or shrubs exceed cover of grasses. It occurs on dry-mesic mountain slopes, foothills, and plateaus in the Colorado Plateau extending east into the west slope of the southern Rocky Mountains. |
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